Details

Department: 
Microbial Ecology
Research Group: 
Laanbroek Group
Contact: 
Riks Laanbroek
Running period: 
2007 to 2017

Natural vegetation of mangroves is structured according to environmental and soil characteristics. The project aims at establishing the distribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria along the vegetation and flooding gradients in the impounded Black mangrove soils near Fort Pierce, Florida.

Theme: 

Global environmental change

Funding

Smithsonian Marine Network, NIOO – KNAW

Research team

Jos Verhoeven (Utrecht University)
Dennis Whigham (Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center)