Identifying the microbial cohorts associated with drought-driven carbon release from peatland ecosystems.

This project will assess the composition and functional capacity of soil microbial communities across a replicated time series of droughted and control ‘megacores’ which represent two key peatland types from North Wales. The objective of this study is to understand how climate change will affect the ability of microbial communities to decompose organic matter in peatlands, and to link this to changes in fluxes of greenhouse gases and DOC.