Various aspects of soil microbial ecology as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis.

RNDr. Petr KOTAS

Doctoral thesis

Anotácia:

The PLFA profiling method was adopted and used to determine changes in microbial community structure and abundance along natural and human-induced environmental gradients. The presented studies were based on field sampling campaigns combined with targeted laboratory experiments. According to the aims of particular studies, microbial PLFA fingerprinting was combined with the auxiliary below- and aboveground ecosystem characteristics to identify the drivers of microbial responses to environmental changes or with 13C-labelling and metagenomics to obtain more complex information about running processes and involved microorganisms.

Abstract:

The PLFA profiling method was adopted and used to determine changes in microbial community structure and abundance along natural and human-induced environmental gradients. The presented studies were based on field sampling campaigns combined with targeted laboratory experiments. According to the aims of particular studies, microbial PLFA fingerprinting was combined with the auxiliary below- and aboveground ecosystem characteristics to identify the drivers of microbial responses to environmental changes or with 13C-labelling and metagenomics to obtain more complex information about running processes and involved microorganisms.

Kľúčové slová

phospholipid fatty acid, PLFA, soil microbial ecology, microbial community structure

Jazyk práce: Czech

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 10. 1. 2018

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 22. 3. 2018
• Vedúci: Mgr. Eva Kaštovská, Ph.D.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE

Faculty of Science

Doctoral programme / odbor:
Biology / Ecosystem Biology