[Methods]
 

 

Methods

The documents below describe protocols used in the Wright Lab.

Soil sampling and sieving

Soil moisture and organic matter

Soil inorganic nitrogen (KCl) extraction and microbial biomass nitrogen extraction

Soil Denitrification Enzymatic Assay (DEA)

Soil Carbon mineralization

Soil pH measurement

Soil bulk density

Protocol for separating, weighing, and subsampling vegetation for C:N analysis

Instructions for weighing ground up plant material into tin capsules

 

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Wright lab members are harvesting vegetation at the wetland vegetation plots in the Duke Forest.
Bonnie McGill is sampling vegetation amongst the herbaceous jungle at the wetland vegetation plots in the Duke Forest.