| 项目编号: | 1442183
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| 项目名称: | Dimensions US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: Collaborative Research: Integrating Dimensions of Microbial Biodiversity across Land Use Change in Tropical Forests |
| 作者: | Klaus Rudolf Nuesslein
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| 承担单位: | University of Massachusetts Amherst
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| 批准年: | 2014
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| 开始日期: | 2015-01-01
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| 结束日期: | 2019-12-31
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| 资助金额: | USD449744
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | functional dimension
; deforestation
; amazon rainforest
; microbial biodiversity
; potent green house gas methane
; microbial study
; use change
; forest management
; land use
; microbial response
; research mentoring
; tropical forest
; tropical ecosystem
; microbial diversity
; us-brazil research team
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| 英文摘要: | Tropical forests are the largest reservoirs of biodiversity on Earth and are under great threat due to deforestation. This project addresses the critically important question of how microbial biodiversity responds to and recovers from deforestation. Microorganisms are regarded as drivers of ecosystem processes and have not been characterized as extensively as plants and animals. The US-Brazil research team will focus on the potent green house gas methane and identify the producers and consumers along gradients of land use in the Amazon rainforest. The educational efforts for this project will build relationships between K-12 students in Brazil and US for biological conservation through live video conferences for training of undergraduate students and research mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral associates. The microbial studies have important conservation and technological implications for forest management.
Direct and real time measurements of the methane gas in the soil-atmosphere interface will be combined with a targeted high throughput nucleic acid sequencing of microbes involved in the cycling of methane to assess their genetic, phylogenetic, and functional dimensions in two different regions of the Amazon rainforest. This work will result in the most extensive survey to date of the microbial diversity of any tropical ecosystem, the most comprehensive study of microbial responses to land use change ever documented, and the development of a novel approach for the integration of microbial biodiversity, allowing for accurate prediction of the effects of deforestation on the methane cycle. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/95268
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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Klaus Rudolf Nuesslein. Dimensions US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: Collaborative Research: Integrating Dimensions of Microbial Biodiversity across Land Use Change in Tropical Forests. 2014-01-01.
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