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Natasja van Gestel

Ecoss scientists travel to Antarctica to research plant and microbial responses to warming

Former Ecoss Postdoctoral researcher Natasja van Gestel, now at Texas Tech University, and Bruce Hungate and Paul Dijkstra from ECOSS are using deglaciated area in Antarctica to investigate plants and microbial responses to warming. Two graduate students will be integral to the success of the study: Kelly McMillen (Texas Tech Read more…

By Ecoss, 4 yearsDecember 13, 2018 ago
leshyk illustration dollar sign weights

The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage

Ecoss research demonstrated that grasslands with more diverse plant species pull down and store more carbon per acre: in this illustration, the same plot of soil from a diverse vs.  depauperate grassland shows more belowground investment in deeper roots and denser storage of carbon in a diverse array of plants. Read more…

By Ecoss, 6 years ago
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The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage

In a groundbreaking study, Ecoss research produced a monetary value for biodiversity by demonstrating that having more diverse plant species enables a grassland to draw down and store more carbon.  This finding allows calculations of how much carbon storage is lost or gained per species added or lost from a Read more…

By Ecoss, 6 years ago
leshyk illustration stable isotope probing

Quantitative microbial ecology through stable isotope probing

Measuring the growth rates of individual bacteria taxa within a mixed sample gives a powerful view of the moving parts of a living ecosystem, especially when that sample is soil, where so many ecological processes occur.  Ecoss research pioneered “qSIP” — a new method for gathering many simultaneous bacterial growth Read more…

By Ecoss, 6 years ago
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