Climate change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We are particularly interested in the impacts of climate change on the cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, and how this affects ecosystem feedback to climate through changing uptake and release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane (https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/phoenix-ecology-global-change-lab/).
This work includes understanding how changes in biodiversity drive the ecosystem level responses. Projects will suit those with an enthusiasm for understanding climate change impacts on plants or soils, and for combining field and lab based research. We will provide training in a diversity of methodologies for assessing ecosystem responses, from traditional survey and measurement techniques, through to advanced gas flux and hyperspectral analyses, plant physiology and soil chemistry.
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