Soil microbial responses to changing climate and nitrogen availability
Short description
There is a new combination of environmental change over Europe during the last decade - nitrogen (N) deposition declines whilst air temperature is increasing. Soil microbial functional groups and enzyme activities are sensitive to these environmental factors. We aim to assess the responses of soil microbial functional groups and activity to change in climate and N availability and the implications for carbon storage in and N leaching from forest soils.
The field studies are carried out in long-term forest experimental sites along a climatic, nutrient gradient from central Sweden to Czech Republic, in co-operation with University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The results of the field studies will be used to improve predictive power of soil organic matter models by explicitly describing soil microbial functioning and responses to a changing environment.
Partner at GU
Annemieke Gärdenäs
Partners at SLU
Martin Rappe George, presently Water Authority of the South Baltic Sea District, Sweden.
Muhammad Shabbaz, presently Stockholm University
Gunnar Börjesson
Partners at University of South Bohemia:
Hana Šantrůčková
Michal Choma,
Petr Čapek,
Jiri Barta,
Eva Kaštovská
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Title: MSc-thesis project “Soil microbial responses to changing climate and nitrogen availability” available for you interested in Environmental Sciences, Soil Microbiology and Statistics. |
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Title: “Indications that long-term nitrogen loading limits carbon resources for soil microbes” by Rappe George, M.O., M. Choma, P. Čapek, G. Börjesson, E. Kaštovská, H. Šantrůčková, A.I. Gärdenäs 2017. Soil Biology and biogeochemistry 115, 310-321 doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.07.015 |
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Title: Poster presentation “Soil microbial responses to changing climate and nitrogen availability” by Annemieke Gärdenäs, Michal Choma, Muhammad Shahbaz, Martin Rappe George, Petr Capek, Gunnar Börjesson, Hana Šantruková. North American Forest Soil Conference-International Symposium on Forest Soils 10-16 June 2018 Quebec, Canada (poster). Book of abstracts, p. 30 (poster). |
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Title: “Recovery of the ectomycorrhizal community after termination of long-term nitrogen fertilisation of a boreal Norway spruce forest” by Choma M., M.O. Rappe George, J. Bárta, P. Čapek, E. Kaštovská, A.I. Gärdenäs, H. Šantrůčková, 2017. Fungal Ecology 29, 116-122 doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2016.10.002 |
