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… carbon storage, nutrient cycling, and climate change; and biofuels, biomaterials and bioproducts. Learn more about our …

… from that decay, and deliver those nutrients to tree roots and soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. … to free up their nutrients; mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize …

… producers fueling our planet’s biogeochemical cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year … covered in thick ice, with a combination of marine and freshwater below. This stratified mixture holds oxygenated water up top and anoxic water below. Cavicchioli and his …

… pathways for making high-value bioproducts including biofuels. In addition, the team says that this experiment …

… this project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a freshwater ecosystem. …

… related, and so we can do some projects that are freshwater and coastal. But we’ve kind of shied away from the …

PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from … and its nearby rural populations rely heavily on groundwater as their only source of clean drinking water. Over 90% of the PCE in the groundwater has been …

… mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the overwhelming majority of the ground … serve the ecosystem by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters … the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. These preferences affect their …