NERC GST code |
Lead PI | Affiliation | Title |
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2105 |
Dr Mark Blaxter |
University of Edinburgh |
Development of a molecular barcode system for soil nematode identification. |
2108 |
Prof Peter Young |
University of York |
Function and taxonomic diversity of mycorrhizas in grassland. |
2109 |
Dr Peter Millard |
MLURI, Aberdeen |
Management of Field Experiments at Sourhope. |
2111 |
Dr Clare Robinson |
Kings College, London | Biodiversity of saprotrophic fungi of grassland in relation to their function |
2113 |
Dr Phil Murray | IGER, North Wyke, Devon | Biodiversity of invertebrate root feeders and their impact on soil microbial communities. |
2115 |
Prof Phil Ineson | University of York |
Soil faunal biodiversity and carbon cycling. |
2116 |
Dr Ian Head |
University of Newcastle |
Effects of soil improvement treatments on bacterial community structure and function. |
2117 |
Dr Jonathan Leake | University of Sheffield |
The effects of mycorrhizal mycelium on the diversity, biomass and functioning of soil microbial communities and its role in carbon and nutrient cycles. |
2118 |
Prof Jim Prosser | University of Aberdeen |
The influence of land-use management practices on species and functional biodiversity of nitrite oxidising bacteria and nitrification and denitrification processes. |
2119 |
Prof Charles Godfray | NERC Centre for Population Ecology, Imperial College, Silwood Park | Soil biodiversity, carbon and nitrogen fluxes in replicate, model Sourhope ecosystems: an Ecotron experiment |
2125 |
Dr Anne Glover | University of Aberdeen | What is the link between microbial diversity and soil resilience? |
2127 |
Prof Donald Davidson | University of Stirling | Interactions of soil biodiversity, micromorphology, structure and organic matter |
2129 |
Prof David Hopkins |
University of Stirling |
Earthworm diversity and the integration of physical, biochemical and microbiological functions |
2130 |
Dr Bland Finlay | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Windermere) | Soil Protozoan Diversity and its role in Carbon and Nitrogen turnover |
2133 |
Dr Richard Bardgett | University of Lancaster | The relationship between diversity, biomass and function of soil microarthropod communities |
2136 |
Dr Mark Bailey | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Oxford) | Establishing the link between functional and total bacterial diversity, its response to perturbation and effect upon carbon flux to other trophic levels |
2138 |
Prof Elizabeth Wellington | University of Warwick | Assessment of chitin decomposer diversity: the role of actinomycetes and other bacteria in C and N cycling in limed and unlimed grasslands |
2642 |
Dr Andy Meharg | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Monks Wood) | Towards a quantitative analysis of soil food-web structure and function at the ecosystem scale |
2645 |
Dr Helaina Black | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Lancaster) | Diversity and functional activity of Enchytraeidae in an upland pasture |
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Second phase
Standard grants
NERC GST code |
Lead PI | Affiliation | Title |
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150 |
Prof Mark Bailey |
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Oxford) |
Influence of Sourhope biodiversity treatments upon on the carbon flow and functional resilience of key bacterial taxa in the rhizosphere of grassland soils. |
160 |
Dr Philip Murray | IGER, North Wyke, Devon | Diversity and functional role of predatory beetles and their prey in the Sourhope ecosystem. |
176 |
Prof James Prosser | University of Aberdeen | How does rhizosphere carbon flow drive soil biodiversity? |
177 |
Dr Jonathan Leake | University of Sheffield | Carbon flow through mycorrhizal mycelial systems to soil microbial populations- their impact of microarthropod diversity. |
178 |
Prof Philip Ineson |
University of York |
Carbon transfers at Sourhope - from plant to soil organic matter. |
Small grants
NERC GST code |
Lead PI | Affiliation | Title |
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143 |
Dr Gareth Griffith |
University of Wales |
Fine scale analysis of Hygrocybe spp. In semi-natural grasslands and elucidation of their role in decomposition processes. |
154 |
Prof Elizabeth Wellington |
University of Warwick
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Provision of a molecular archive for microbial diversity within treatments plots at Sourhope. |
156 |
Dr Ian Grieve |
University of Stirling |
Flow paths and rates of labelled ca |