Details

Department: 
Microbial Ecology
Research Group: 
Laanbroek Group
Contact: 
Riks Laanbroek
Running period: 
2011 to 2017

Due to global warming mangroves will move to the north and the south where they will enter former salt marshes. The project aims at establishing the effect of migrated Red mangroves on the activity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in former salt-marsh soils.

Theme: 

Global environmental change

Funding

Smithsonian Marine Network, NIOO – KNAW

Research team

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