Researcher ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8629-6495
Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Dr. Char Miller
Reader 2
Dr. Marc Los Huertos
Reader 3
Dr. Charlotte Chang
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© 2022 Anna M Burns
Abstract
Prairies were once the largest ecosystem in North America, but agriculture and settlement has destroyed up to 99% of their pre-colonization extent. Prairie restorations are a strategy to recover the biodiversity and carbon sequestration functions of these grasslands, but typically occur in isolated strips between agricultural fields. My thesis analyzes how effective prairie restorations in the Liberty Prairie (northeastern Illinois) are at recovering the diversity of the prairie soil microbiome, focusing on verrucomicrobia abundance, alpha diversity, and soil physical characteristics.
Recommended Citation
Burns, Anna M., "Examining Soil Microbial Diversity in Transition Zones between Corn Fields and Restored Prairie in the Upper Midwest" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1830.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1830
Data Repository Link
https://github.com/aburns2293/BurnsThesis2022
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Agricultural Science Commons, Agriculture Commons, Biodiversity Commons, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons, Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, Soil Science Commons
