Soil biodiversity: Nematodes, Protists, the microbiome and more
Understanding Earth´s most complex biodiversity
Overview of MSc Thesis Topics
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Elucidating the population dynamics of a plant pathogenic protist
Plasmodiophora brassicae is one of the most important Brassica crop pathogens, causing clubroot disease. Control is difficult as different pathotypes... -
Diversity and community compositions of Protists and Nematodes in soils and plant rhizospheres
Protists represent the vast majority of eukaryotic life on earth with nematodes being the most abundant animals on the planet. But we still know very... -
Functional importance of protist and nematode predation in structuring soil microbiomes
Microbiome predators are key for microbiome functioning, the major ones being protists and nematodes. Still, most studies focusing on the importance... -
What does diversity mean? Testing the diversity-functioning paradigm
Microbial diversity in soils is huge with thousands of species present in a single gram of soil. But what does this diversity mean? Is it as important... -
Impact of climatic stresses on soil biodiversity
Climate is changing and we know the negative effects on aboveground biodiversity. -
Describing novel diversity of soil protists needed to find the next generation biological applications
Protists might contain up to a million of species in soils but only few thousands are described. -
Finding novel bioindicators to detect soil quality and predict plant health
Often plant growth is impaired by adverse conditions in soils such as toxic elements and presence of pathogens from previous plant growth. Crop... -
Big data, global data
More and more research is out that describes biodiversity in soils. We want to make use of that through datamining approaches. -
New optimized methods for soil biodiversity analyses
The last years have helped us to increase our understanding of soil biodiversity especially thanks to the development of novel sequencing techniques.