Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/B500666/1
Linking N20 production in soils with microbial functional diversity and active microbial populations.
Fellowship Award
- Fellow:
- Professor L Baggs, University of Aberdeen, School of Medical Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Aberdeen, School of Medical Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Soil science
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- It is necessary to determine the effect of changes in microbial diversity with management or land-use change on N2O emissions to increase our ability to predict atmospheric loading and develop appropriate mitigation strategies. This project will determine the contributions of different processes to N2O emissions from soil, addressing current uncertainties associated with N2O production, and will link this N2O production to functional diversity and active soil microbial populations. This will be achieved using a cross disciplinary approach in which stable isotope techniques will be used to quantify N2O emissions from soils, coupled with molecular techniques to determine functional diversity and the active microbial populations (gene expression and stable isotope probing) under different management and environmental regimes.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/B500666/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Advanced Fellow
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Fellow
This fellowship award has a total value of £324,372
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £16,150 | £253,223 | £55,000 |
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