First phase

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Lead PI Affiliation Title

2105

Dr Mark Blaxter

University of Edinburgh

Development of a molecular barcode system for soil nematode identification.

2108

Prof Peter Young

University of York

Function and taxonomic diversity of mycorrhizas in grassland.

2109

Dr Peter Millard

MLURI, Aberdeen

Management of Field Experiments at Sourhope.

2111

Dr Clare Robinson

Kings College, London Biodiversity of saprotrophic fungi of grassland in relation to their function

2113

Dr Phil Murray IGER, North Wyke, Devon Biodiversity of invertebrate root feeders and their impact on soil microbial communities.

2115

Prof Phil Ineson University of York
 
Soil faunal biodiversity and carbon cycling.

2116

Dr Ian Head

University of Newcastle
 
Effects of soil improvement treatments on bacterial community structure and function.

2117

Dr Jonathan Leake University of Sheffield
 
The effects of mycorrhizal mycelium on the diversity, biomass and functioning of soil microbial communities and its role in carbon and nutrient cycles.

2118

Prof Jim Prosser University of Aberdeen
 
The influence of land-use management practices on species and functional biodiversity of nitrite oxidising bacteria and nitrification and denitrification processes.

2119

Prof Charles Godfray NERC Centre for Population Ecology, Imperial College, Silwood Park Soil biodiversity, carbon and nitrogen fluxes in replicate, model Sourhope ecosystems: an Ecotron experiment

2125

Dr Anne Glover University of Aberdeen What is the link between microbial diversity and soil resilience?

2127

Prof Donald Davidson University of Stirling Interactions of soil biodiversity, micromorphology, structure and organic matter

2129

Prof David Hopkins

University of Stirling

Earthworm diversity and the integration of physical, biochemical and microbiological functions

2130

Dr Bland Finlay Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Windermere) Soil Protozoan Diversity and its role in Carbon and Nitrogen turnover

2133

Dr Richard Bardgett University of Lancaster The relationship between diversity, biomass and function of soil microarthropod communities

2136

Dr Mark Bailey Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Oxford) Establishing the link between functional and total bacterial diversity, its response to perturbation and effect upon carbon flux to other trophic levels

2138

Prof Elizabeth Wellington University of Warwick Assessment of chitin decomposer diversity: the role of actinomycetes and other bacteria in C and N cycling in limed and unlimed grasslands

2642

Dr Andy Meharg Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Monks Wood) Towards a quantitative analysis of soil food-web structure and function at the ecosystem scale

2645

Dr Helaina Black Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Lancaster) Diversity and functional activity of Enchytraeidae in an upland pasture

Second phase

Standard grants

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Lead PI Affiliation Title

150

Prof Mark Bailey

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Oxford)

Influence of Sourhope biodiversity treatments upon on the carbon flow and functional resilience of key bacterial taxa in the rhizosphere of grassland soils. 

160

Dr Philip Murray IGER, North Wyke, Devon Diversity and functional role of predatory beetles and their prey in the Sourhope ecosystem.

176

Prof James Prosser University of Aberdeen How does rhizosphere carbon flow drive soil biodiversity?

177

Dr Jonathan Leake University of Sheffield Carbon flow through mycorrhizal mycelial systems to soil microbial populations- their impact of microarthropod diversity.

178

Prof Philip Ineson

University of York

Carbon transfers at Sourhope - from plant to soil organic matter.

 

Small grants

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Lead PI Affiliation Title

143

Dr Gareth Griffith

University of Wales 

Fine scale analysis of Hygrocybe spp. In semi-natural grasslands and elucidation of their role in decomposition processes.

154

Prof Elizabeth Wellington

University of Warwick

 

Provision of a molecular archive for microbial diversity within treatments plots at Sourhope.

156

Dr Ian Grieve

University of Stirling

Flow paths and rates of labelled ca