RaMPs soil microbes
RaMPs microbial responses to experimental manipulation of precipitation
RaMPs study at the Konza Prairie LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) site targets to identify ecosystem-level responses to experimental manipulation of the rainfall and warming. This component that relies on the decadal ecosystem manipulation aims to identify microbial community shifts by combining 454-sequencing and DNA tagging across samples collected from all RaMPs experimental units.
This study aims to elucidate microbial community responses to altered timing of precipitation in tallgrass prairie ecosystems. Fungal ITS and bacterial 16S amplicons were sequenced from soil core DNA to assess the community level shifts.