BIOMASS - MITI|80PRIME

In the present context of climate change, understanding and monitoring the carbon cycle is of primary importance. In the BIOMASS project, we focus on the carbon that is present in the soil. Microbial degradation of organic carbon in soil is often linear as a function of the square root of time, suggesting that the process is diffusion limited. This project aims to characterize the aqueous phase (connectivity/tortuosity) connected to degraders in order to better understand how diffusion processes regulate microbial decomposition of organic carbon. In order to achieve this, we will combine geophysical and microbial analyses.