Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
\nGateway Building
\nUniversity of Nottingham
\nSutton Bonington Campus
\nSutton Bonington
\nLeicestershire
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LE12 5RD<\/p>\n
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Email Nick Girkin<\/a><\/p>\n LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n Project Link<\/a><\/p>\n As an undergraduate I studied biology at Durham University before studying MRes Ecology and Environmental Management at the University of York. During the course of my studies I became interested in the mechanisms that drive and regulate environmental change, particularly within tropical ecosystems.<\/p>\n Research Project:<\/p>\n My PhD combines these interests by focusing on the regulatory roles of root exudates and root oxygenation on methane emissions from tropical forested wetlands. Global wetlands are a significant source of methane and an important carbon store but are under significant pressure from land use and climate changes. Within wetland systems, the release of root exudates can enhance methane emissions by providing substrate for microbial communities, while the release of oxygen can raise the soil’s redox potential and increase carbon dioxide emissions. My project aims to quantify these processes with root exclusion experiments and by using labelled tracers to follow the movement of sugars through plants and into the peat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PhD: Tropical Forest Methane Emissions: Root Regulation of Soil Processes and Fluxes Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Gateway Building University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus Sutton Bonington Leicestershire LE12 5RD Tel: Email Nick Girkin LinkedIn profile Project Link As an undergraduate I studied biology at Durham University before studying MRes Ecology and Environmental Management at the… Read More »Nick Girkin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-105"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/01\/Nick-Girkin-400-x-400-px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-oj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}