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Sytske  Drost's picture

Sytske Drost MSc

PhD Student

Microbial Ecology


Page last updated: 02-10-2020

Currently, in my PhD project my focus is about the soil microbial community dynamics in an agricultural system. I study how cover crop mixtures can increase the microbial functional diversity, nutrient cycling and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a long term field experiment in the Clever Cover Cropping project shared with Wageningen University (Ali Elhakeem (CSA) and Rima Porre (SOQ)), the effect of cover crop mixtures compared to monocultures is studied. Biomass of the cover crops, biomass of the main crop, greenhouse gas fluxes, soil nutirent content and the microbial community is measured. The aim of this field experiment is to understand the possible advantages of mixtures over monocultures of cover crops.

 

 

 

 

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11/2015 – present     PhD candidate, NIOO-KNAW: Clever Cover Cropping: Optimizing resource stoichiometry for increased microbial diversity and functioning

  • 09/2017 SOM2017 Poster Prize: Best Overall Student Poster & Best Student Poster in Session; Title: Cover crop mixtures: Do they reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

09/2013 – 08/2015  Master Biology, Wageningen University, Specializations: Bio-interactions & Molecular Ecology

  • 02/2014 – 10/2014       Thesis in Soil Biology at NIOO-KNAW: Impact of bacterial interactions on antibiotic production
  • 11/2014 – 02/2015       Internship at RIVM: Analysis of community level physiological profiles (CLPP) from Dutch soils
  • 03/2015 – 08/2015       Thesis in Phytopathology at SLU (Sweden): study the Plasmodiophora brassicae-Arabidopsis responses

09/2010 – 07/2013 Bachelor Biology, Wageningen University, cum laude

 

Publication

Michiel Rutgers; Marja Woutere; Sytske M Drost; Anton M Breure; Christian Mulder; Dorothy Stone; Rachel E Creamer; Anne Winding; Jaap Bloem. Monitoring soil bacteria with community-level physiological profiles using Biolog™ ECO-plates in the Netherlands and Europe (2016) Applied Soil Ecology, DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.06.007

Bodelier Group
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De Boer Group
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    2020

  • Drost, S. M., Rutgers, M., Wouterse, M., De Boer, W., & Bodelier, P. (2020). Decomposition of mixtures of cover crop residues increases microbial functional diversity. Geoderma, 361, [114060]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114060
  • 2018

  • Brenzinger, K., Drost, S. M., Korthals, G. W., & Bodelier, P. L. E. (2018). Organic residue amendments to modulate greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, [3035]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03035

Contact

+31 (0)317 473 482

Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen 
+31 (0)317 47 34 00

Postbus 50 
6700 AB Wageningen

S.Drost@nioo.knaw.nl

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