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Recent News
Opportunities for Graduate Students. I am currently seeking students to begin work on two new projects in Fall 2010, Jon Leff, Adrienne Keller and Megan Keville will all join the lab in the fall of 2009! Missoula Mayor highlights work by MS student Heath Carey in the "State of the City" address Study shows nitrogen buildup negatively affects mountain ecosystems NSF-funded NCEAS project investigates nutrient limitation in tropical rain forests
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Biogeochemistry During Long-Term Soil Development Well-constrained We are studying the relationship between element abundcance and ecosystem processes by utilizing both short (< 100 years following glacial retreat) and long (4000 ky in the Hawaiian Islands) chronosequences. With colleagues at the University of Colorado, I am testing the relationship between soil and microbial biomass element ratios and measures of microbial community activity and composition. This research includes a suite measurements in recently exposed soils in Peru and Alaska (above), where our data show that these early microbial communities are capable of high rates of nitrogen (N) fixation, phosphorus (P) cycling and photosynthesis many years before the establishment of plants. In addition, our data suggest that as soils develop, both the structure and the function of the soil microbial community changes in predictable ways with C, N and P availability. We currently seeking funding to explore whether microbial and biogeochemical succession follows patterns of plant community succession and assembly in 3 rapidly deglaciating sites. Finally, I am interested in whether
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| For questions about the research we do, or for information about opportunities in the lab, please contact Cory Cleveland at: Phone: 406-243-6018 | Fax: 406-243-6656 Email: cory.cleveland@umontana.edu | Office: CLP 464 |
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