Sentences with phrase «how soil microbes»

Based on their results, the Berkeley Lab scientists recommend that future Earth system models include a more nuanced and dynamic depiction of how soil microbes go about the business of degrading organic matter and freeing up carbon.

A large longitudinal experiment in a tropical rain forest examines how soil microbes adapt genetically to nutrient changes in the soil.

In order to better understand how soil microbes respond to the changing atmosphere, the study's authors utilized statistical techniques that compare data to models and test for general patterns across studies.

Microbes in the bog generate methane from this carbon, but researchers aren't sure how the soil microbes go from frozen to marshy methane producers.

Not exact matches

«By understanding how microbes work and modifying the environments where they function, we can eventually engineer microbial communities to enhance soil productivity.

«Rather than soil microbes and plants, I studied the bugs in your gut and how they influence it,» Bry says.

In the first study of its kind, Rice University scientists have used synthetic biology to study how a popular soil amendment called «biochar» can interfere with the chemical signals that some microbes use to communicate.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

As to how the nanoparticles impact plant growth, Colman says his guess it that «partly they are impacting the soil microorganisms directly, partly they are impacting the plants directly, and no doubt the microbes are having impacts on the plants... that could directly influence how the plants are growing.

«To not consider how microbes influence soil carbon in offsetting ways, promoting losses through enhanced decomposition but gains by protecting soil carbon, would lead to overestimates or underestimates of the role soils play in influencing global climate.»

Understanding how microbes inside a dead body colonise it can help pathologists work out the time of death, where the body has been lying, and how its decomposition could affect the soil and ecology around it.

Northen and his collaborators deployed a set of tools that he calls «exometabolomics» which harnesses the analytical capabilities of the latest mass spectrometry techniques to quantitatively measure how each microbes and the biocrust community transforms complex mixtures of metabolites, in this case, from soil.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

But researchers report today that they've figured out how to predict the structures of hundreds of unmapped proteins by gleaning insights from one of the strangest of places: «metagenomics» projects that sequence DNA from broad swaths of microbes in the soils and seas.

In addition, at the meeting, they will describe a computer program that predicts how the microbe will react to forces, such as water pressure, transferred through soil under a building foundation (as depicted in the illustration).

Our world is teeming with microbes and we are scouring the oceans, soil, and human body to learn how they affect all these environments.

A research team led by graduate student researcher Shannon Hagerty and Paul Dijkstra, biological sciences associate research professor, measured two key characteristics of soil microbes that determine their role in the soil carbon cycle: how efficiently they use carbon to grow and how long they live.

Microbes in soil determine in large part how the planet stores carbon, when and how carbon is released into the environment, how plants take up nutrients and how crops fare.

We could build these complicated three - dimensional pictures of how microbes are influencing the area around the root and soil.

The data would help researchers understand how microbes capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how they break down organic matter so that plants can access its nutrients, and how they neutralize soil toxins known to threaten human health.

Pearce, who came to the Laboratory in 2009, is investigating how minerals and microbes affect technetium and other radionuclides in the soil at a former plutonium production site in southeastern Washington State.

When a landscape architect set out to change the state of the soil in her garden, she ended up learning a lot more about microbes, how they communicate with our immune system, and our own cancer risk.