Research is a the interface between traditional ecology (vegetation, soil physico-chemistry, macro fauna and meso fauna) and molecular soil microbial ecology (soil and rhizosphere microbiomes, environmental genomics/post-genomics) and focuses on (i) plant:soil interactions in agroforestry and spontaneous secondary forest regrowth, and (ii) ecology and sustainable management of the Babassu palm (dominant throughout the Amazonian ‘arc of deforestation’).
Microbiomes, Global environmental change, Restoration
CAPES/BRAZIL (International collaboration Netherlands/Brazil)
Research team