Ecosystem Ecology
Plant Identification
Biogeochemistry
West Lab
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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?