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Project Code [2016-CCRP-FS.26]
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Project title
Fulbright Scholarship 2016-2017 - Evaluating the impact of climate change on plant-soil microbial interactions
Primary Funding Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
Maynooth University (MU)
Lead Applicant
Conor Meade
Project Abstract
Climate change will have significant impacts on terrestrial ecosystem composition in all natural and agricultural environments. Many of the forcing pressures on plants will be mediated through the soil, especially via interactions between plants and soil microbes. We now have the ability to monitor plant-soil microbiome interactions using next-generation DNA sequencing technology, and so model climate impacts on these interactions. This project will develop these techniques focusing on climate-sensitive alpine plants at a long-term ecological monitoring site in the high Rocky Mountains, with parallel analysis of the same species on the Ben Bulben plateau, Northwest Ireland.
Grant Approved
�21,000.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options
Initial Projected Completion Date
17/11/2016