Kanika Sharma Inglett

Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Microbiology

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Research focus:

Studying the effect of vegetation on decomposition of organic matter and greenhouse gas production and oxidation.
Aquatic food webs to study the trophic interactions between microbial functional groups in Florida Everglades.
Characterization of microbial communities associated with the early development of soils in a calcareous wetland soil using phospholipids fatty acid analysis.
Biogeochemical succession in early development of soils using nutrient and soil enzyme analysis.
Investigation of biogeochemical, physical and biological mechanisms that influence the phosphatase production in the periphyton mats.
Linking structure and functions in periphyton mats by using enzyme labeled fluorescent (ELF) substrate and fluorescence microscopy.

Inglett KS, Inglett PW., Osborne TZ., Reddy KR. 2011 Temperature sensitivity of greenhouse gas production in wetland soils of different vegetation Biogeochemistry, doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9573-3
Torres IC., Inglett, KS., Reddy KR. 2010. Heterotrophic microbial activity in lake sediments: effects of organic electron donors. Biogeochemistry. doi 10.1007/s10533- 010-9494-6
Smith C., Serra L., Li Y., Inglett P, Inglett K. 2010 Restoration of Disturbed Lands: The Hole-in-the Donut restoration in the Everglades. CRC Reviews in Environmental Science. 41: 723-739
Ogram, A., Chauhan A., Inglett K., Jayachandran K., Newman S. 2010 The role of microbial ecology in Everglades restoration- CRC Reviews in Environmental Science 41:289-308
Ye R., Wright, AL., Inglett K., Wang Y., Ogram AV., Reddy KR. 2009. Land use> effects on soil nutrient cycling and microbial community dynamics in the Everglades Agricultural Area, Florida Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 40: 2725 – 2742.