Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/B/S/2002/00295
Further evaluation of N2O exchange in N2-fixing cyanobacteria: construction of an environmentally relevant model.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor KJ Flynn, Swansea University, Biological Sciences
- Grant held at:
- Swansea University, Biological Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Marine
- Freshwater
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Pollution and Waste
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Microbiology
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Abstract:
- Preliminary NERC-funded work has shown that cyanobacteria act as both a source and a sink of the greenhouse gas, N2O. It is now proposed to study the production and consumption of N2O in cultures of environmentally important cyanobacteria in order to investigate whether N2O can function as a nitrogen source for growth and whether the reactions by which N2O is produced have a bioenergetic role, as is the case in denitrifying bacteria. Kinetic data from these and previous studies on these cyanobacteria will be used to parameterize a dynamic model for N2O exchange and to integrate this into existing models of cyanobacterial nitrogen metabolism. This will allow us to predict the effects of environmental changes on the impact that cyanobacteria have on atmospheric N2O concentrations.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/B/S/2002/00295
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £31,223
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|
| £20,318 | £1,559 | £9,346 |
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