We are conducting a snail feeding study in collaboration with Hal Halvorson (Southern Miss), Kevin Kuehn (Southern Miss), and Bob Findlay (UA). This is a follow-up experiment to their fine-scale microbial characterization of leaf litter and priming under different light and nutrient manipulations. The feeding experiment will allow us to connect our fine-scale microbial characterization (especially biomass and carbon flow into different groups) to detrital versus algal contributions to consumer growth. We collected all our snails over the weekend and have the experiment up and running. Several undergraduate students from UA are helping in the effort. Gabi Dickinson, Abby Rankin, Lucas Glisson, and Maya Owens-Freeman have been helpful in making the setup successful! More to come!
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