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Isolating And Characterizing Lipid Degrading Microbes From Human Decomposition Soils, Brooke Amara Talley, Allison R. Mason, Jennifer Debruyn
Isolating And Characterizing Lipid Degrading Microbes From Human Decomposition Soils, Brooke Amara Talley, Allison R. Mason, Jennifer Debruyn
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Making Sense Of Soil Microbiome Complexity For Plant And Ecosystem Function In A Changing World, Kendall K. Beals
Making Sense Of Soil Microbiome Complexity For Plant And Ecosystem Function In A Changing World, Kendall K. Beals
Doctoral Dissertations
Soils contain the highest biodiversity on Earth. While the importance of the soil microbiome for larger-scale ecological phenomena such as nutrient and carbon cycling, plant growth and plant community dynamics is well-established, the fundamental question of the ecological and evolutionary function of this immense belowground microbial diversity for plant and ecosystem function still remains a great challenge in microbial ecology research. The objective of this dissertation is to understand how the importance of soil microbial community composition for plant and ecosystem function and how changes to soil microbial community composition from climate change-induced disturbance events, specifically fire, influence plant and …
Revealing The Ecological Role Of Gemmatimonadetes Through Cultivation And Molecular Analysis Of Agricultural Soils, Mariam Naomi Fawaz
Revealing The Ecological Role Of Gemmatimonadetes Through Cultivation And Molecular Analysis Of Agricultural Soils, Mariam Naomi Fawaz
Masters Theses
Bacteria belonging to phylum Gemmatimonadetes are frequently detected in a variety of environments using culture-independent methods. Despite their ubiquity and prevalence, almost nothing is known about their physiology or ecology because so few strains have been isolated. The first objective of this study was to determine the distribution of Gemmatimonadetes within soil aggregates and the response of the relative abundance of Gemmatimonadetes to dry/wet cycling and soil management. The second objective was to analyze the effects of soil management, aggregate size, and atmospheric conditions on cultivability of Gemmatimonadetes. Universal and Gemmatimonadetes-specific 16S rRNA gene primers were used to …
Respiration And Carbon Dioxide Accumulation In Soil Microcosms, Jasity Murphy
Respiration And Carbon Dioxide Accumulation In Soil Microcosms, Jasity Murphy
Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee
The thawing of permafrost leads to liberation of soil organic matter and microbial component resulting in significant effect on the carbon cycle. Changes in permafrost soils upon the global climate warming would significantly impact microbial soil activity. Currently, not a great deal is known about what happens to the microbial community after the permafrost thaws. The activity of microbial community was determined in microcosms experiment using respirometry. To assess the CO2 fluctuations during permafrost thawing a titration experiment was performed. Based on calculations using the respirometric equation it was found that CO2 production increases with temperature, core depth, …