Sampling Soil Microbes (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Sampling Soil Microbes

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Researcher Stephanie Kivlin cores in soil plots at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in conjunction with one of three experiments over six years that found the amount of carbon that soil microbes emit is higher in areas where there is historically more rainfall in the soil.

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Photo Courtesy: Christine Hawkes, The University of Texas at Austin

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