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Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology Lab

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Study

Resources

Field trip to Bracken tract QUBS property near Newboro to collect the plant root plus soil samples (Jan 19th 2019):

Adam Binhammer's freshly chiselled out core of frozen soil from the Bracken tract field experiment (air temperature -15C)

Cassandra Pereira and Joanna Strozak sampling soil from one of the Bracken tract experimental plots

Lab work to extract, wash, and stain the roots for counting arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation:

Root washing and removal from soil; demonstration vermiculture composting bin in the foreground

Christine Yim and Joanna Strozak making soil sample volume measurement

Adrian Kuchtaruk estimating soil volume

Adrian Kuchtaruk estimating soil volume

Root washing: Quality control

Root washing: Quality control

Root washing: Quality control

Root washing: Quality control

Root washing: Quality control

Fixing the stain using an alkaline solution

Everyone's into it in this soil ecology lab!

A handful of goodness: earthworms, springtails, nematodes, bacteria and fungi etcetera all interacting in a home compost system