Plant-soil feedback and local adaptation along soil fertility gradients

Project description

Digging deep to uncover plant–soil feedback variations

Plants influence the soils where they grow. While plant–soil feedback (PSF) plays an important role in plant community assembly and functioning, little is known about how PSF varies between different habitats and soil types. The EU-funded PlantSoilGradients project will research the variation in the strength and direction of PSF along soil fertility gradients in temperate grassland ecosystems at local to large spatial scales. Combining different disciplines – from plant ecology, soil science and population biology to evolutionary and microbial ecology – the project will build a mechanistic framework to predict PSF in different environmental contexts. The findings will assist in addressing global changes to biodiversity.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › soil sciences
• social sciences › sociology › demography › fertility
• social sciences › economics and business › economics › production economics › productivity
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology › ecosystems

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

TARTU ULIKOOL

Net EU contribution

€ 154 193,28

Address

Ulikooli 18
51005 Tartu
Estonia

Region

Eesti › Eesti › Lõuna-Eesti

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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Non-EU contribution

€ 0,00