Getting the Inside Scoop on Soil Seed Banks

Kuo, Venus

Permalink

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/75916 Copy

Description

Title

Getting the Inside Scoop on Soil Seed Banks

Author(s)

Kuo, Venus

Contributor(s)

Dalling, James

Issue Date

2015-04

Keyword(s)

• Tropical
• Forest
• Fieldwork
• Liberal Arts and Sciences
• soil microbes

Abstract

In this picture, I am photographed in my typical field day during my research experience for undergraduate (REU) at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) during the summer of 2014. Here, I am shoveling soil from a transect in the 50 ha Barro Colorado Island rainforest census plots that contains a seed bank of a particular Neo-tropical pioneer species. After collection, I would bring the collected seeds back to the labs on Barro Colorado Island to culture fungi, test for viability, germination, conductivity, and physical hardness to answer questions regarding seed dormancy and the role of soil microbes has on long-term persistence. For more information about the Image of Research--Undergraduate Edition go to: http://go.library.illinois.edu/imageofresearch_uredition

Type of Resource

• text
• image

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/75916

Copyright and License Information

Copyright 2015 Venus Kuo

Owning Collections