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Effects of ecohydrological and management factors on microbial communities involved in rhizosphere C cycling and methane emission from natural wetlands and paddy soils
Information
Project Team
Outputs and Outcomes
Duration
01 December 2008 → 30 November 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Catalysis and reacting systems engineering
    • Chemical product design and formulation
    • General chemical and biochemical engineering
    • Process engineering
    • Separation and membrane technologies
    • Transport phenomena
    • Other (bio)chemical engineering
Keywords
CH4 rice soil wetlands Phospho Lipid Fatty Acid
 
Project description

Ecohydrological and management factors (water management and fertilization) are known to affect on the emission of CH4 from wetlands, though less information available on the microbial communities catalyzing this proces. Therefore, this project aims to analyze the effects of these factors on microbial communities in natural wetland and rice soils by Phospho Lipid Fatty Acid (PLFA) analysis.