Undergraduate Research | ethanlynch

Lynch ET, Anderson GR, Kisch MA, Paulsen RH, Zeiner CA. Stewardship Garden Soil Microbial Community CO2 Respiration Correlated with Fertilizer Input. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Oct 2021. Ethan Lynch using the LiCOR to measure microbial CO2 respiration While urban gardening is an increasingly common suggested solution for food deserts in urban communities, urban ecosystems are hot spots of inefficient internal biogeochemical cycling of nutrients. Although urban garden biogeochemical budgeting studies have identified systemic inefficiencies, the mechanistic pathways describing how ecosystem structure affects the flow of nutrients through systems remains poorly understood. Since microbial soil communities drive soil nutrient fluxes, the Zeiner Lab seeks to better inform best management practices by characterizing the effects of microbial soil communities on biogeochemical systems between various fertilizer treatments in urban garden plots. Here we determine whether soil moisture an

Lynch ET, Anderson GR, Kisch MA, Paulsen RH, Zeiner CA. Stewardship Garden Soil Microbial Community CO2 Respiration Correlated with Fertilizer Input. Undergraduate Research Symposium, Oct 2021. Ethan Lynch using the LiCOR to measure microbial CO2 respiration While urban gardening is an increasingly common suggested solution for food deserts in urban communities, urban ecosystems are hot spots of inefficient internal biogeochemical cycling of nutrients. Although urban garden biogeochemical budgeting studies have identified systemic inefficiencies, the mechanistic pathways describing how ecosyst