Research Question: How does each stage of biocrust restoration influence microbial community composition? Project Description: Often biocrust restorations fall short of expectations, with the inoculum often not growing rapidly enough in the field to remain long-term at the restoration site. In order to make improvements, we are assessing microbial community composition throughout the entire process to learn how our manipulations affect the microorganisms and at which steps we should make adjustments. This project involves sequencing microbial communities, extracting their chemical products, and thinking about their ecosystem functions once deployed at the restoration site.
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AuthorSierra is a graduate student in the Barger Lab at CU Boulder studying microbial ecology for dryland restoration. Archives
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