ERC database

The facility

Here, we use a latitudinal gradient spanning 3,000 km across Europe to examine bacterial and fungal communities in the rhizosphere and surrounding soils of range-expanding plant species. We selected range-expanding plants with and without congeneric native species in the new range and, as a control, the congeneric native species. From the plants we've collected aboveground insects and soil samples for metagenomic analysis and nematode identification.

Research topics

(Soil)microbes, plants, insects (invertebrates), NGS

References

• Wilschut, R. A., Geisen, S., Martens, H. J., Kostenko, O., De Hollander, M., Ten Hooven, F. C., Weser, C., Snoek, B., Bloem, J., Caković, D., Čelik, T., Koorem, K., Krigas, N., Manrubia, M., Ramirez, K. S. R., Tsiafouli, M. A., Vreš, B., & van der Putten, W. H. (2019). Latitudinal variation in soil nematode communities under climate warming-related range-expanding and native plants. Global Change Biology, 25(8), 2714-2726. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14657
• Ramirez, K. S., Snoek, L. B., Koorem, K., Geisen, S., Bloem, L. J., ten Hooven, F., Kostenko, O., Krigas, N., Manrubia, M., Caković, D., van Raaij, D., Tsiafouli, M. A., Vreš, B., Čelik, T., Weser, C., Wilschut, R. A., & van der Putten, W. H. (2019). Range-expansion effects on the belowground plant microbiome. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0828-z

Running period (guaranteed funding)

2013 – 2018

Data management 

Available datasets

Insect dataset, nematode dataset, metagenomic dataset.

The metagenomic dataset is available via https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB25697 

Conditions for access

Request to make use of the facility can be made by contacting Wim van der Putten.