Angelo Coast Range Reserve

27 Jun, 06 AM - 28 Jun, 05 AM

The environment in turn plays a large role in shaping the diversity of soil microbes by dictating the nutrients available for microbial metabolism, and microbes play a large role in shaping global environments through alteration of major nutrient and atmospheric cycles. In fact, microbes are responsible for much of the world?s available oxygen and biologically available nitrogen. Despite the environmental importance of microbes, ecological theory is largely absent from modern studies of soil microbes. Soil ecology largely focuses on mechanistic approaches to connect microbes to their environments, however these communities must be examined within an ecological context in order to understand and predict patterns of soil microbial community composition and ultimately community function. The overarching goal of my proposed research endeavors to incorporate theory and empiricism to examine microbial ecology dynamics. A central goal is to fill important gaps in our knowledge (e.g. investigate with-in habitat variability, and within soil profile variability), and investigate the environmental correlates of community assembly patterns at small and large spatial scales, the robustness of these patterns between habitat types and soil horizons (layers within a soil profile e.g. top soil and subsoil), and how soil biogeochemistry influences community assembly and the ultimate function of a soil community. I will investigate these questions by conducting a field survey of microbial community structure across soil types horizons in the Pacific North West.

Visit #21931 @Angelo Coast Range Reserve

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Under Project # 22012 | Research

Investigating the Role of Soil Carbon and pH on Microbial Community Structure

graduate_student - University of California, Los Angeles

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Emily Curd Jun 27 - 28, 2010 (2 days)
Group of 2 Research Assistant (non-student/faculty/postdoc) Jun 27 - 28, 2010 (2 days)

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