Baltic TRANSCOAST G3 project, 3rd cohort
Coastal wetlands can be seen as natural laboratories for the future impacts of sea-level rise and the intricacies of the effect of sulfate on emissions of the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide. A 3-month anoxic incubation experiment was conducted with soil extracted from the Drammendorf peatland along the NE German Baltic coast, which was rewetted with brackish water 2 months prior to examine how the microbial community has adapted to the new conditions at the site. Soil slurries from three depths were incubated at a moderate temperature of 15 °C at two different salinities (a high and low value within current in-situ salinities) and sampled at 8 timepoints. Microbial community composition was evaluated via 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomic sequencing (Illumina platform).