Soil Ecology Lab UoM
@SoilEcolUoM
Updates from the Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Lab at The University of Manchester
|| OUT NOW || Climate change disrupts the seasonal coupling of plant and soil microbial nutrient cycling in an alpine ecosystem 📃 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @arthurbroadbent @SoilEcolUoM @StirBES @UIBK_Func_Eco
Check out this podcast conversation between former lab member & continuing collaborator @arthurbroadbent & current PhD student @nerd_inthe_wild for some talk about #plants, #soil, & #climatechange in the mountains! livablefuturepodcast.com/2024/03/05/alp… #Livablefuture #podcast #MountainLife
I had fun nerding out with @arthurbroadbent to make this episode! Check it out to learn about how #climatechange is affecting plants & soil in the Alps. Also super grateful to Arthur for sharing how #tippingpoints can also be a force for good & a reason for hope! #Livablefuture
New research led by Tianyang Xu used 13C #isotope labelling to investigate how defoliation & #drought impact #carbon allocation to AM #fungi in #grasslands. Both reduced plant 13C uptake, but differed in belowground allocation effects #soil #ecosystems link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Photosynthate transfer from an autotrophic orchid to conspecific heterotrophic protocorms through a common mycorrhizal network 📖 ow.ly/tfLE50RNgAh by Read et al. @katiefield4 @EmilyMagk @DJSoilEcol @PPS_UoS @SoilEcolUoM
📢 Announcing our latest SPECIAL ISSUE! Mycorrhizal research now: from the micro- to the macro-scale 📚 ow.ly/9PjG50RnNWi 🍄 The #mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers 🍄 Microbe-dependent and independent nutrient acquisition 🍄 The #hyphosphere core #microbiome
jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Come and work with Dr Filipa Cox and join our lab group. Here is yet another awesome opportunity to look into the ecology of plant-fungal interactions.
New paper out led by @KatieJourneaux reveals a potential #climatechange feedback mechanism where wood decomposing #fungi do not show compensatory thermal responses, allowing for increased #carbon respiration under #warming
*New Research in @GlobalChangeBio!* 'A positive feedback to climate change: The effect of temperature on the respiration of key wood-decomposing fungi does not decline with time' With Iain Hartley, @FungusProf and Lucy Rowland onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…
Thrilled to share our latest @Biofunlab article, just published in @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity & ecosystem services worldwide @CSIC @IRNAS_CSIC @CSICAndalExtrem
Important paper led by @arthurbroadbent @SoilEcolUoM showing that snow removal and shrub encroachment, both consequences of rapid climate change in mountain ecosystems, cause a mismatch between plant and microbial N cycling processes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
How does defoliation impact #belowground communities and their ability to improve #plant resilience to #drought? New paper led by Tianyang Xu reveals that defoliation can suppress beneficial mycorrhizal fungi-plant interactions under drought! Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
*NEW RESEARCH* ‘Elevated CO2 interacts with nutrient inputs to restructure plant communities in phosphorus-limited grasslands’ With @LukeEngland98 @GarethPhoenix @fluxsoilsleaves @torijanes @ProfJessDavies, Iain Hartley, Simon Smart, Jonathan Leake onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc… 1/16
How does land management impact #microbial communities & their role in #ecosystem functions under #drought? Check out our findings in @NatureComms! nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by @JM_Lavallee, w/ @tildechom @ManuDelBaq @Tancredi_Caruso @frantecol @DJSoilEcol & more! #soil
New @NatureComms in the @BioFunLab Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by @JM_Lavallee Great col w/@Tancredi_Caruso @frantecol @SoilEcolUoM and many more! @IRNAS_CSIC @CSIC @CSICAndalExtrem
This is a good way to start the new year and back to work from maternity leave! Another paper out from our @Soil_Security project in Nature Communications @SoilEcolUoM @fiblorg
New @NatureComms in the @BioFunLab Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands nature.com/articles/s4146… Led by @JM_Lavallee Great col w/@Tancredi_Caruso @frantecol @SoilEcolUoM and many more! @IRNAS_CSIC @CSIC @CSICAndalExtrem
Nice to get a first glimpse into how land use and plant growth strategy affect drought resistance in study by @cordero_ire @SoilEcolUoM #BES2023
We're excited to be at #BES2023 with lots of presentations from current and former lab members! Check out talks today by @cordero_ire @matt_mesostig16 @YichenZhou22 @pamoehl & posters by @Ellp95 & @Peng_Huang98! #ecology #soil
#BES2023 here we go!!! So excited to be back at BES! Come and say hello if you are around 😃. I have a talk at 10:30 today in plant-soil interactions session! Join me if you are interested in learning about microbiomes, drought, land use and plant performance 🌱🍄🦠@SoilEcolUoM
Thanks to @matt_mesostig16, @Carbon_Chris95 and @Henry_Birt_UoM from @SoilEcolUoM for their fascinating talks yesterday @BiologyEHU. It was great to see you all.