Microbial response to extreme climatic events

NERC funded project: Developing a trait-based framework for predicting soil microbial community response to extreme events. Europe wide, based at UoM.

[Soil Ecology Lab UoM @SoilEcolUoM]

🚨Job alert!🚨We have three exciting new post doctoral positions available to join an ERC funded team with Richard Bardgett exploring the diversity, stability and functioning of the grassland soil microbiome (SoilResist).

Details to follow >

@theGSBI @UoM_EES @BESPlantSoilEco

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

@rletesb @SoilEcolUoM Hi Arlete, we flood & drought the pots to approximate an extreme climatic event and then investigate the microbial response, relating it back to the response traits of the plant community of that particular pot. There's more info on our blog https://t.co/yousVgQ1Bv

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Our disturbance phase has begun. Grassland community pots will be subjected to drought and flooding for two weeks. #SoilScience #ClimateChange #Ecology
@SoilEcolUoM

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

@soilandstuff @SoilEcolUoM Our plant communities consist of mesotrophic grassland species that naturally occur in the area we collected our soil from. We used a pool of 12 grass & 12 forb species to create pots representing a gradient of community-weighted mean SLA. The names were too long for a tweet!

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Big news!! We've finally been able to move our plants into the newly completed greenhouses. Such a relief after building delays and COVID-19 delays. #SoilScience #PlantScience #ClimateChange @SoilEcolUoM

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Recent IRGA action down at the Firs. Basically, we use the infrared gas analyser with light and dark chambers to measure soil respiration and photosynthesis. These are a colleague's plants, but it will be our turn soon!
@SoilEcolUoM #PlantScience #SoilScience

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Fellow lab member, Prof Richard Bardgett was recently featured in the new @BBC #Attenborough documentary #ExtinctionTheFacts. In summary: soil organisms are key to our survival!

[Soil Ecology Lab UoM @SoilEcolUoM]

It was great to see soil systems included in discussions about biodiversity loss. Richard Bardgett was on BBC One last night to talk about how soil organisms are key to global food security. https://t.co/4LfPCQmkYP #soil #biodiversity #ExtinctionTheFacts

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

@frantecol has made this great video on plant-soil interactions at Boerderij Polderzicht as part of a BSc course at @IBED_UvA @UvA_Amsterdam. She interviews Richard Korrel, a farmer using innovative methods to manage his soil & grass health. https://t.co/iTztB6YSsO
🐄🌱🦠🪱🌾🥀

[Soil Ecology Lab UoM @SoilEcolUoM]

We enjoyed a talk by Laura Muller @mue_laura this morning, presenting her master's thesis work from her time with us. It was great to see some work that was disrupted by the lockdown coming together.

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Fieldwork hasn't been on the cards this year (for obvious reasons), so here's a throwback pic from experiment 1 of the project. We collected soil samples from this site in Uttendorf in Austria in 2018 - what an incredible view! #SoilScience #Ecology #Fieldwork

[Tamara Hernandez-Verdeja @tamara_hverdeja]

#PlantSciJobs

[Pete Manning @PeteEcology]

We are seeking 2 PhD candidates to investigate 'Biodiversity and Nature’s Contributions to People' as part of the new Kilmanjaro Social Ecological System project @senckenberg @geobidiversity Please RT. Details here: https://t.co/xw0g3t4Wcn

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

A glossy new @Netflix documentary about how important soil is for surviving #ClimateChange drops on Sept 22nd. Let's hope the science in the show is as good as the trailer!
#SoilScience #KissTheGround

[Kiss the Ground @kissthegroundCA]

Hope arrives on September 22nd.🌿Save the date.
https://t.co/xxq6u3avGh @netflix @DavidArquette @giseleofficial @rosariodawson @jason_mraz @iansomerhalder @kissthegroundoc #regeneration #kisstheground

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Our latest blog post discusses some of the obstacles we've faced during the lockdown period and the general progress of the experiment. It's been an unusual summer, that's for sure! Written by @Ecology_Holly.

#SoilScience #Plants #ClimateChange

https://t.co/m1XAF7QyT7

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Happy to see at least one of our lacewing biocontrol soldiers is still going strong! #larvae #aphids

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

@Ecology_Holly @ExplorersWeb @BanffMtnFest @eoft @500womensci A connected issue we see in academia, in biological sciences in particular, is that some people believe women can't or shouldn't do fieldwork. That attitude comes out in a huge variety of subtle or subconscious ways, often unseen unless you are looking for it. #Ecology #Fieldwork

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

We have the odd flower popping up in our pots now 🌻🌷🌼

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

More single species pots planted out. All following the same equally spaced planting template as the community pots in our main experiment.
#Ecology #ClimateChange #SoilScience

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

Single species pots planted out for possible root trait analysis later. 8 down...

[Microbial response to extreme climatic events @Climate_Soil]

"Machiavellian microbes: how drought-induced changes in belowground communities can have aboveground consequences" - talk from @frantecol, partly informed by our earlier experiments. Catch up with this @BritishEcolSoc Ecology Live session at https://t.co/CUlUM9IiFN #SoilScience