Saddleworth Moor, Peak District
Robroek et al. 2017 Nat Communs 8:1161
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NEWS
New paper; this time on the effects of leaches on the competitive peat moss microbiomes: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02042/full 12.07.2019 | I have accepted a job as a TT Assistant Professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. After 7 1/2 years I will be moving back to my home country. My new position will be at the Aquatic Ecology group, working with Professor Leon Lamers. 09.04.2019 | We –w/ Mike Peacock (SLU, Uppsala) and Aino Korrensalo (UEF, Joensuu)– have been awarded 250k SEK (~ 21k £) by the Vidfelt Foundation (2018-024-Vidfelts Fond) 19.11.2018 I am an official Fellow of the Higher Education Academy 01.10.2018 Our NERC urgency grant funded starts from today. Last week we (Marc Dumont, Paul Hughes, Mary Edwards, and Rob Mills) installed our plot in the recently burned Saddleworth Moor. We try to answer important questions on how microbial life is affected by wildfire, and if we can put microbes to work to fast-track the recovery of ecosystem processes. 01.10.2018 Excited that Dan Turner has accepted his offer to come and work with me an Becky Morris. Dan is going to study plant-soil interactions across land-use gradients on Borneo. 20.07.2018 New position available in the lab of Becky Morris (and me), working on above- and below-ground food webs and ecosystem functioning across a tropical forest modification gradient. For more info, click here 20.06.2018 Happy to announce the team is complete. With Najam, Harry and the recent acceptance of Magda, the Plants Microbes Ecosystems group is ready to go! 27.10.2017 Nature Communications paper online Taxonomic and functional turnover are decoupled in European peat bogs Nature Communications 8: 1161 (2017). click here for a good news item 06.10.2017 I gave my first keynote lecture at the International Plant Science Conference in Parma, Italy. 22.05.2017 I am a member of the NERC Enhancing the resilience of UK peatlands 'scoping group'; http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/portfolio/strategic/areas/sgmembership/ 17.05.2017 Interested in fieldwork in Sweden? I am looking for a student who will join my lab for 8-10 weeks. Fully funded trough the SPITFIRE Research Experienc Placement scheme: http://www.spitfire.ac.uk/spitfire-research-experience-placements-scheme-2017 17.05.2017 New paper accepted: Küttim M, Hofsommer ML, Robroek BJM et al. Freeze-thaw cycles simultaneously decrease peatland photosynthetic carbon uptake and ecosystem respiration. Boreal Environment Research 14.05.2017 New paper accepted: Gay-des-Combes J, Sanz Carrillo C, Robroek BJM et al. Tropical soils degraded by slash-and-burn cultivation can be recultivated when amended with ashes and compost. Ecology and Evolution. 17.02.2017 New paper accepted: Mulot M et al. Genetic determinism vs. phenotypic plasticity in protist morphology. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. |
