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Start date:
December 2014
End date:
February 2015
Locations:
Beacon Valley, Bonney Riegel, Bull Pass, Canada Glacier ASPA 131, F6, Garwood Valley, Lake Bonney, Lake Fryxell, Lake Hoare, Lake Joyce, Marshall Valley, Miers Valley, Olympus Range, Taylor Valley, Wright Valley
Principle Investigator:
Diana Wall
Organisation:
Colorado State University
State
Colorado
This project is the “soils” component of the MCM LTER. Researchers maintain (through application of water and nutrients), monitor (soil moisture and temperature) and sample (soils) in their long−term experimental plots near Lakes Fryxell, Hoare and Bonney. The project aims to determine the impacts of natural factors and those associated with potential climate change on the abundance, distribution and diversity of soil biota.