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Alpine soil inocula collection and preparation
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Description
Collection of soil inocula from resident (high elevation) and novel (low elevation) sites across elevation gradients in mountain ecosystems, with subsequent sterilization treatments to isolate microbial effects. Soils collected along transects and processed to create live and sterile inoculum treatments.
Typical Equipment
- 8.5% sodium hypochlorite bleach-sterilized trowel
- ethanol-sterilized 2 mm grade sieve
- autoclave
Output Measurements
- live soil inocula
- sterile soil inocula
- elevation-specific microbial communities
Papers Using This Protocol (8)
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The impact of elevational gradients on dark septate endophytes (DSE) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in mountains
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Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming
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Plant Identity Influences Foliar Fungal Symbionts More Than Elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients
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A Comparative Analysis of Saxicolous Lichen Diversity and Cover along an Elevation Gradient on Talus Slopes in Gunnison National Forest to Infer Possible Climate Change Effects
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Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.
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How do above and belowground grass-fungus symbioses change over elevational gradients in mountainous Colorado?
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