Project description:The experiment at three long-term agricultural experimental stations (namely the N, M and S sites) across northeast to southeast China was setup and operated by the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This experiment belongs to an integrated project (The Soil Reciprocal Transplant Experiment, SRTE) which serves as a platform for a number of studies evaluating climate and cropping effects on soil microbial diversity and its agro-ecosystem functioning. Soil transplant serves as a proxy to simulate climate change in realistic climate regimes. Here, we assessed the effects of soil type, soil transplant and landuse changes on soil microbial communities, which are key drivers in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles.
Project description:Protist predators are the primary agents of top-down control of bacteria and primary producers, and thus key organisms determining the fate and transport of organic matter in nature. In this study, we address the effects of light and silver stress on the mixotrophic protist Poterioochromonas malhamensis by means of mass spectrometry-based label-free proteomics.
