Restoration of Soil Microbial Function following Degradation on Department of Defense Lands: Mediating Biological Invasions in a Global Change Context
- HF-ID: HF2012-06
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Stinson, K.A., Frey, S.D.
- Date: January 2012 to April 2017
- Location: Northeastern United States
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- SERDP (Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program: Fiscal Year 2013 Research Proposal). 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: soil, fungi, invasive species
- Abstract:
- 1. Use bioinformatics to quantify the functional diversity of soil fungi in lands susceptible to GM invasions.
- 2. Use experimental eradications to quantify GM impacts on key features of soil function, and test which removal methods might be most effective at reversing these changes.
- 3. Simulate GM invasions at an existing, long term global change experiment to test how multiple stressors affect the soil biota's role in carbon and nitrogen cycling.
- 4. Test how recovery of soil fungi mediates long term GM impacts on vegetation.
- 5. Provide decision-analysis tools to identify which GM removal methods are most effective for restoring specific desired ecosystem attributes.
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