Site Science
Isolation of Fungi from Healthy and Blue-Stain Infected Piñon at the Sevilleta LTER
Poster Number: 349 Presenter/Primary Author: Andrea Porras-Alfaro Piñon trees in piñon-juniper woodlands in the Southwest have been showing increase mortality due in part to major droughts that have been impacting this area.
Soil and endophytic fungal associations with grama at the Sevilleta LTER
Poster Number: 348 Presenter/Primary Author: Andrea Porras-Alfaro Plant and soil fungi are fundamental in different ecological processes.
Thermophilic Fungi in Biological Soil Crust at the Sevilleta LTER
Poster Number: 347 Presenter/Primary Author: Andrea Porras-Alfaro Biological soil crust are common in arid ecosystems, they are mainly form by the association of a community of microorganisms including fungi, lichens and cyanobacteria.
SBC-sLTER: An Ocean View of Marine EcosySTEMs
Poster Number: 346 Presenter/Primary Author: Scott Simon With the development of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) initiatives as the latest "weapon-du-jour" on science literacy in America, SBC sLTER has taken an ecosySTEMs approach to add
Characterization of Endophytic Cellulose Degrading Fungi at the Sevilleta LTER site.
Poster Number: 345 Presenter/Primary Author: Andrea Porras-Alfaro Very few microorganisms are currently used in bioethanol production and the discovery of novel species with the capacity to degrade cellulose could impact directly the biofuel industry.
