Dr Louis Mielke

At Stirling, my time encompasses the MYCONET project, which aims to understand how the highly organic soils will respond to increased abundance of trees and woody shrubs by examining processes in the ‘mycorrhizosphere’ using culture based methods, radiocarbon analyses, statistical modelling, metagenomics and intensive field campaigns. These processes determine the carbon balance of globally important soil carbon stores. The project is in cooperation with the University of Edinburgh, The James Hutton Institute and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Fungi, Mycorrhizas, Soil Biology, Conservation Biology, Ecosystem Ecology