Chronology. (yrs. AD. ) 2003-... 2010-. ... of Bern Institute of Plant Sciences) ... Proposal acceptance. 2012. START. 2013. 2014. 2015. 2016. Timeline. CLI-MIC.
SCIEX Programme Experience of Home Mentor Swiss Jura Mountains
Vistula River Valley – Poland
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University POLAND
CLI-MIC
RE-FIRE
2014-2015
Chronology (yrs AD)
2013
CLIMPEAT 2010-...
2003-...
CLIMPEAT How global change influences hydrology, carbon sequestration and diversity of Sphagnum peatlands – past, present and future perspectives
PROJECT SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM SWITZERLAND THROUGH THE SWISS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION
PARTNERS Mariusz Lamentowicz, AMU (PI) Alexandre Buttler, EPFL/WSL Edward A. D. Mitchell, UniNe Bogdan Chojnicki, PULS
Main aim: To assess the response of Sphagnum peatland to warming and drought
http://www.climpeat.pl
2011
2014
Þ Project RE-FIRE: REconstructing long-term Fire Impact and its Role in wetland Ecosystems Fellow - Katarzyna Marcisz (6 months, July-December 2013) Swiss mentor – prof. Willy Tinner (University of Bern Institute of Plant Sciences) Polish mentor – prof. Mariusz Lamentowicz
2012
RE-FIRE results
wet 1 dry
• increased fire frequency affected peatland hydrology, -> mire responded through hydrological change towards drier conditions was delayed in relation to the surrounding vegetation changes, • Testate amoebae community responded to vegetation removal driven by fire.
Benefits from SCIEX project – Fellow point of view • I bring back to the Home Institution new ideas connected with the use of new tool – proxy that was not used so far in our Laboratory – microscopic and macroscopic charcoal analysis, that we plan to use more often in the future studies, • The RE-FIRE project resulted in the research that is already published in the high-ranked journal (Marcisz et al, 2015, Quaternary Science Reviews), and two more papers are in prep., • Closer collaboration with prof. Willy Tinner’s Paleoecology group, that is still on-going, • The Sciex experience was much more than I expected it to be!
Katarzyna Marcisz
Þ Project CLI-MIC: Assessing the Responses of Peatland MicroEukaryotes to Climate Change Using Next Generation Sequencing Fellow - Monika Reczuga (9 months – 2014-15) Swiss Mentor: prof. Edward A.D. Mitchell (Lab. Soil Biology, University of Neuchatel) Polish Mentor: prof. Mariusz Lamentowicz
CLI-MIC Results
Drought caused: - an increase in the number and diversity of micro-algae due to the arrival of predominantly terrestrial taxa, - a decrease in a relative proportion of osmotrophs, including Fungi and Oomycota
Benefits from SCIEX project – Fellow point of view • From CLI-MIC experience, I brought to the Home Institution novel method – Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) that will be applied in future research in our Laboratory, • The results of the project were presented at 2 international conferences (34th annual meeting of the German Society of Protozoology and VII European Congress of Protistology) and 2 research articles are in preparation, • My successful research stay will extend to a new project proposal, • The fellowship not only met my expectations but also went beyond them (I was involved in additional project, broadening the scope of the fellowship). It is a lifetime experience.
Monika Reczuga
Timeline July 2011 Proposal acceptance
2012 START
2013
RE-FIRE
2014
2015
CLI-MIC
2016
Benefits from the SCIEX • New methods – charcoal analysis (fires) & next generation sequencing (biodiversity), • Novel ideas leading to new projects, • Fantastic friends and colleagues, • Strenghtened cooperation.
Complementarity of CLI-MIC and RE-FIRE • Both projects relate to diversity of peatland protists, • They are focused on different temporal scales – from 2 years to 2000 of years, • CLI-MIC provided detailed taxonomic data that helps to understand/validate drought/warming effect on soil microbes, • RE-FIRE explored long-term ecology of microbial communities affected by drought and warming, • This is the first time when such projects met in environmental sciences focused on peatlands and climate change.
CLIMPEAT & SCIEX Team
http://www.climpeat.pl
Thank you for your attention