Ville Nieminen

I am a doctoral researcher and my main interests are in environmental microbiology, nutrient cycles, and ecosystem ecology. In my PhD thesis, I study how much genetic and environmental variation affect fungal network trait characteristics within species. I also investigate how much variation in fungal network traits affects soil carbon processes, i. e.  carbon cycling and carbon persistence within soil system. This is important to broaden our understanding that how fungal trait variation is linked to soil carbon cycling and how it can be used to predict soil ecosystem functions.