Field trip to Bracken tract QUBS property near Newboro to collect the plant root plus soil samples (Jan 19th 2019):
![Adam Binhammer's freshly chiselled out core of frozen soil from the Bracken tract field experiment (air temperature -15C)](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2747.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=auZx5q83)
![Cassandra Pereira and Joanna Strozak sampling soil from one of the Bracken tract experimental plots](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2757.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=Tcezbszc)
Lab work to extract, wash, and stain the roots for counting arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation:
![Root washing and removal from soil; demonstration vermiculture composting bin in the foreground](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2777.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=R9bXXxqh)
![Christine Yim and Joanna Strozak making soil sample volume measurement](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2807%20%281%29.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=HG-lICyb)
![Adrian Kuchtaruk estimating soil volume](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2801%20%281%29.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=DezRC03N)
![Adrian Kuchtaruk estimating soil volume](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2783.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=KOT8Ge7t)
![Root washing: Quality control](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2778.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=6surtboN)
![Root washing: Quality control](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2792.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=K3wlOjy7)
![Root washing: Quality control](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2781.jpg?h=5ae4b68d&itok=XVM86DTy)
![Root washing: Quality control](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2870.jpg?h=309e12e8&itok=yheFvInO)
![Root washing: Quality control](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2874.jpg?h=1a1f9b0f&itok=gWdj7LWd)
![Fixing the stain using an alkaline solution](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2873.jpg?h=241d674f&itok=jxkX14o-)
![Everyone's into it in this soil ecology lab!](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG2805.jpg?h=ddf42d68&itok=5qFlZClY)
![A handful of goodness: earthworms, springtails, nematodes, bacteria and fungi etcetera all interacting in a home compost system](/terrestrial-ecosystem-ecology/sites/teelwww/files/styles/image_gallery_thumbnail/public/uploaded_images/Teaching/Biol416/Arbuscular%20mycorrhizal%20study/RIMG4078.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=kJPjXY_W)
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