Research
Theme 1
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Programs and projects - theme 1

Program number
Project number		Program title
Project title
1010Bacterial anaerobic methane oxidation in high temperature environments
1011a + bAnaerobic methane oxidation by Thermotoga species and other thermophilic microorganisms
1012Membrane lipids of Thermogata as indicators for present and past thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane
1030The role of microbial activity in iron-deposition in wetland ecosystems
1031Ecology of iron-oxidizing bacteria in wetland environments
1032Microbial iron oxidation under oxygen-limited conditions: Rates, competition and spatial patterns in the rhizosphere of wetland plants
1040Biogeological feedbacks between temperature change, hydrology, vegetation change, and the carbon cycle at high latitudes
1041Carbon fluxes of tundra wetlands in Northeastern Siberia on a landscape scale: relations with permafrost and floodplain dynamics
1042Feedbacks between hydrological and nutritional changes as induced by permafrost melting, and ecosystem functioning
1043Feedbacks on vegetation change to surface energy balance and seasonal thawing of permafrost
1044Chironomid 13C as a proxy of past methane emission from thermokarst lake sediments: development, calibration and application
1050The role of crenarchaeota in the marine nitrogen cycle
1051Ecophysiology and role of marine crenarchaeota in the present day marine N cycle
1052Biogeochemistry of archaeal and bacterial nitrification in coastal ecosystems
1053Ecology and lipid chemistry of marine Crenarchaeota in present and past marine environments
1060Carbon recycling in peat bogs, with special emphasis on the role of methanotrophic symbionts
1061Microbiology and biogeochemistry of peatland ecosystems
1062Methane cycling in contemporary and ancient peats as revealed by microbial lipid biogeochemistry
1070The DARWIN Azolla project – (palaeo) ecology and biogeochemistry of the freshwater fern Azolla and its importance in global biogeochemical cycles
1071Subproject 1, the ecophysiological (actuo) component
1072Subproject 2, the palaeoecological component
1073Subproject 3, the biogeochemical component
1090The role of benthic foraminifera in the global N-cylcle
1091Nitrate respiration by benthic foraminifera
1092Infaunal benthic foraminifera: ecology, evolution and their role in the evolution of the global N-cycle
1100The Darwin Phosporus cycle project: Role of sulphate-reducing bacteria in sediment phosporus preservation and consequences for global climate change
1101The Role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in controlling sediment phosphorus preservation in sediments overlain by anoxic bottom waters
1102The Darwin Phosphorus cycle project: from preservation mechanisms in marine sediments to global climate change
3050The carbon and greenhouse gas balance of permafrost degradation
3051The effects of large scale permafrost degradation features on the carbon and greenhouse gas balance of Siberian tundra
3052Vegetation succession due to small-scale permafrost degradation in relation to carbon sequestration and methane emission
3080Biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in coastal marine sediments
3081Microbial interactions in marine anoxic sediments: competition or teamwork?
3082Biogeochemical cycling of organic matter in coastal marine sediments: Intact
3090Dynamics of coastal hypoxia: an experimental study of sediment ecosystem recovery from Anoxia
3091Dynamics of coastal hypoxia: an experimental study of sediment ecosystem recovery from anoxia
3092Recovery of faunal-mediated ecosystem functions from hypoxia