Ecosystem Ecology
Plant Identification
Biogeochemistry
West Lab
Random
100
This occurs on previously vegetated sites after disturbances such as fire, hurricanes, logging, and agricultural plowing
What is secondary succession?
100
This plant species has the ability to associate with both AM and EcM fungi and is currently being grown in a greenhouse at the Arnold Arboretum
What is Populus deltoides?
100
When microorganisms are metabolizing organic carbon, this is the most energetically favorable electron acceptor
What is oxygen?
100
The West Lab has a total of XX gas tanks
What is 4?
100
This woman recently visited the Taylor Lab to fix the Discrete Analyzer
Who is Debbie?
200
This is the study of ratios of elements in organisms and ecosystems
What is ecological stoichiometry?
200
In our lab, this nitrogen-fixing plant is often remembered for it's stinky roots
What is Stryphnodendron microstachyum?
200
This is the enzyme responsible for converting atmospheric N2 to NH3 in local conditions of cellular anoxia
What is nitrogenase?
200
This room has been taken over as a pseudo office and now goes by a new name
What is "The Cave"?
200
This is how humans are able to produce nitrogen fertilizers
What is the Haber-Bosch process?
300
The plant biomass of an ecosystem is the balance between these two things
What are net primary production (NPP) and tissue turnover?
300
We all know about Siberian alder, but this flower can also be found in Alaska within the Arctic Circle
What is Chamaenerion latifolium (Dwarf Fireweed)?
300
Nitrate taken up by soil microbes is reduced to ammonium by nitrate reductase and used in microbial growth. This process is known as XX
What is assimilatory reduction?
300
This is the standard used to create a calibration curve on the Elemental Analyzer
What is Aspartic Acid?
300
This is the most commonly detected drinking water pollutant in groundwater in the U.S.
What is nitrate?
400
The approximate conservation of energy from one trophic level to the next
What is 1/10?
400
This tree species sports asymmetric leaf bases and is the state tree of Massachussets
What is American Elm?
400
To study phosphorus cycling, researchers have measured the dilution of this radioactive isotope that is applied to the soil pool as a tracer
What is 32P?
400
This part on the Discrete Analyzer is responsible for reducing nitrate to nitrite
What is the cadmium coil?
400
In streams, currents move materials downstream at the same time that they are cycling between compartments (e.g. stream, stream bed, stream banks). This concept is referred to as XX
What is nutrient spiraling?
500
These brothers conducted the first comprehensive assessment of energy flow through an ecosystem at Silver Spring, FL
Who are the Odums (Howard and Eugene)?
500
The genus of nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs currently at the center of a major nomenclature argument between Africa and Australia
What is Acacia/Vachellia?
500
The most recalcitrant fractions of soil humus appear to have a large component of XX groups (chemically speaking) that are synthesized by microorganisms
What are polymethylene (C=C=C) groups?
500
If I wanted to make 2M KCl I would dissolve this amount of KCl in 1L of DI water
What is 149.1026g?
500
Protozoans consist of a single cell and ingest their prey primarily by this process
What is phagocytosis?