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MACRONUTRIENTS SHAPE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, GENE EXPRESSION AND PROTEIN EVOLUTION
(2017-05-10)
Nutrient limitation of the principle macronutrients carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus are known to influence community structure, success of individual species, and over long enough time could, in theory, shape the evolution ...
Remote sensing analysis of croplands, woody plant encroachment and carbon fluxes of woody savanna
(2017-05-12)
Since 1990s, much attention has been paid to Land use/land cover change (LULCC) studies because it is an important component of global change. The vegetation change is a critical factor of land cover changes, which interacts ...
RESPONSES OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE WARMING
(2017)
Strong scientific evidence supports that anthropogenic activities since industrialization have caused instability in earth’s climate, featured by increasing global surface temperature, increasing greenhouse gas concentration ...
THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE CROPLAND, DROUGHT AND LAND MANAGEMENTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS
(2017-05-12)
With the increasing population, human needs more food, fresh water, and other ecosystem services, which burdens the agricultural and natural ecosystems. Under the background of climate change, meeting these human needs ...
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYZING MICROBIAL FUNCTIONS AND INTERACTIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL METAGENOMES
(2017-05-12)
Microorganisms are ubiquitous on earth, and they interact each other to form communities, which play unique and integral roles in various biochemical processes and functions that are of critical importance in global ...
Characterization of MILDEW RESISTANCE LOCUS O Mediated Pollen Tube Reception
(2017-12)
Beyond its importance for the subsistence of all plant species, and thus life on earth, plant reproduction is fundamental to all human agricultural exploits. Understanding the mechanisms regulating reproduction is central ...
Microbial Ecology of Coastal Ecosystems: Investigations of the Genetic Potential for Anaerobic Hydrocarbon Transformation and the Response to Hydrocarbon Exposure
(2017-04-24)
Microbial-mediated hydrocarbon transformation plays a vital role in the attenuation of natural and anthropogenic-sourced petroleum contamination in the environment, particularly in marine systems. Indigenous microbial ...
THE HUMAN GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME: INSIGHTS INTO THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTOME
(2017)
The human gastrointestinal microbiome consists of approximately 10-100 trillion symbiotic microbial cells. Recent advances of molecular based approaches have enhanced the ease and rapidity with which the microbial community ...
DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF TERRESTRIAL GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY USING REMOTE SENSING AND IN SITU OBSERVATIONS
(2017-12)
Vegetation play a critical role in the interactions between atmosphere and biosphere. CO2 fixed by plants through photosynthesis process at ecosystem scale is termed as gross primary production (GPP). It is also the first ...
ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: DROUGHT ASSESSMENT (REMOTE SENSING), FIELD MEASUREMENTS (EDDY COVARIANCE) AND MODELING (DNDC)
(2017-12-15)
Climate variability and management practices in isolation or in combination influence the properties of ecosystems and the flows of energy and materials through them. The goal of this dissertation is to better understand ...