NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: G. Van Keulen
Institution: Swansea University
Value: £46,388
Proteomic profiling: a novel approach to understanding the biological causes of soil hydrophobicity
Award winner: E. Bailey
Institution: University of Nottingham[QQ] Value: £47,163
Iodine transformations and dynamics in soils
Award winner: F.R. Cottier
Institution: Scottish Association for Marine Science
Value: £62,631
Pan-Arctic acoustic archives: quantifying zooplankton behaviours in a changing Arctic
Award winner: K.H. Roucoux
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £59,268
Long-term forest dynamics in Peruvian Amazonia
Award winner: C.F.E. Bacles
Institution: University of Stirling
Value: £57,573
Restoration genetics of degraded forest landscapes: land management and evolution of reproductive strategies in keystone tree species
Award winner: D. Johnson
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £41,758
Contribution of plant intraspecific diversity to carbon turnover in grassland
Award winner: J.T.P. Copley
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £29,093
Biogeography and ecology of the first known deep-sea hydrothermal vent site on the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge
Award winner: J. Wiedenmann
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £22,060
Host pigments of hermatypic corals as indicators of environmental stress in reef communities
Award winner: M.E. Viney
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £36,712
The genetic basis of host resistance/susceptibility to parasite infection in a wild vertebrate population: a pilot study
Award winner: Y. Teh
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £65,205
Quantifying event-driven methane fluxes from northern peatlands using a novel automated flux-chamber technique
Award winner: P. Eggleton
Institution: Natural History Museum
Value: £41,538
How important is the ant-termite interaction in African rainforests?
Award winner: A.D. Marca
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £56,547
Atmospheric carbon partitioning using 13O18O16O composition of CO2
Award winner: M. Trimmer
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Value: £46,550
Methane as a novel energy subsidy in rivers: old or new carbon?
Award winner: G.K. Phoenix
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £29,125
Resource partitioning for phosphorus (P) in a P-limited plant community: preference for different soil P sources among co-occurring species
Award winner: W. Dubbin
Institution: Natural History Museum
Value: £59,851
Adsorption of humic acid to interlamellar surfaces of montmorillonite
Award winner: M.G. Ritchie
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £26,234
Genome-wide associations with song variation in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster
Award winner: W. Otten
Institution: University of Abertay Dundee
Value: £48,656
Integrating physical and chemical techniques to characterise soil microsites
Award winner: D. Mauquoy
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £25,250
An evaluation of plant wax markers to reconstruct long-term vegetation change in peat-bog deposits
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Award winner: N.B. Metcalfe
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £37,089
Does poor maternal condition reduce early offspring performance in the wild?
This study will look at Atlantic salmon species to investigate whether a decline in the average maternal condition of the wild fish population is affecting the ability of its offspring to cope in harsher environments. Recent increases in the winter sea's surface temperature have resulted in a decline in the mean fat content of female salmon returning to Scottish rivers to spawn. Professor Metcalfe and his team will seek to relate the condition of the female salmon to the eggs she produces while looking at the survival rates of her fry.