Mycorrhizal facilitation of N uptakeThis pot experiment was established in 2018 and is currently running in the common garden of the Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden.
MSc student Charlotte harvested the experiment as a part of her thesis work and is currently working on getting all the plant, soil and fungal material processes and analysed for stable nitrogen isotopes. Thanks to Simone Windfeldt-Schmidt and Carolina Olid for helping with establishing the pots. |
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Moisture and temperature effects on N2 fixationSome of my coldest field days and lots of hiking to reach to 8 treeline sites 5 times during the growing season of 2018. Ellen Dorrepaal (Umeå University) has established these sites along a precipitation gradient in Northern Sweden to study the combined effects of warming and precipitation on various moss-related ecosystem processes.
Thanks for invaluable field help in 2018 from: Dagmar Egelkraut, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Mattias Dallqvist, Hassan Rihda and Simone Windfeldt-Schmidt. |
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Fungal communities in forest mossesFor this project, I got to collaborate with Karina Clemmensen at SLU, Uppsala and the PRIMETIME crew at Stirling Uni in Scotland. Through root trenching or tree stem girdling their impressive field experiments aims to cut the trees supply of sugars to their mycorrhizal partners in the soil. What I was interested in was if I could detect changes in the moss layer. What is the business of fungi in the moss layer?
As a side feature of this project, I got to learn the fundamentals of DNA extraction and amplification for sequencing. This was during my lab visit at MYCOPAT at SLU, Uppsala. |
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