How is your revegetation project rewilding the microbiome?
After theÌýsuccess of ecological restoration projects around the world by ³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers, revegetation could be boosted using a potential new tool that monitors soil microbes.
In a paper published in the journal , researchers have shown how the community of bacteria present in the soil of land that had been cleared and grazed for 100 years was returned to its natural state just eight years after revegetation with native plants.
The researchers used next generation sequencing of the DNA in soil from samples taken across the site that had a range of plantings between six and 10 years old. The technique – high-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA), otherwise known as eDNA metabarcoding – identifies and quantifies the different species of bacteria in a sample. For more information on the findings see
The project is looking to workÌýwith members of the ecological revegetation community, such as land managers, Not-For-Profit Organisations, practitioners and researchersÌýworld-wide to collaborate and further apply the soil microbial monitoring methodÌýrecently published inÌý.
Professor Andrew Lowe
Dr Martin Breed
Nick Gellie
Jacob Mills
Video produced byÌý
In a paper published in the journal , researchers have shown how the community of bacteria present in the soil of land that had been cleared and grazed for 100 years was returned to its natural state just eight years after revegetation with native plants.
The researchers used next generation sequencing of the DNA in soil from samples taken across the site that had a range of plantings between six and 10 years old. The technique – high-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA), otherwise known as eDNA metabarcoding – identifies and quantifies the different species of bacteria in a sample. For more information on the findings see
Get Involved!
The project is looking to workÌýwith members of the ecological revegetation community, such as land managers, Not-For-Profit Organisations, practitioners and researchersÌýworld-wide to collaborate and further apply the soil microbial monitoring methodÌýrecently published inÌý.
For more informationÌýplease contact:
Professor Andrew Lowe
Dr Martin Breed
Nick Gellie
Jacob Mills
Video produced byÌý
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