Photosynthetic rate and local leaf nutrient status... ________________________________ From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] on behalf of Geoff Zahn [geoff.g...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 6:47 PM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: [ECOLOG-L] How to measure plant leaf responses to microbial variation?
Hello Ecolog, I are going to be undertaking a microbial transplantation project (mainly phyllosphere fungi) in an effort to help protect a critically endangered tree snail on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Because I can't handle the snails directly, we would like to measure the effects of our different microbial communities on the host plants themselves, but would like some advice as to what parameters might be useful to measure. These are all long-lived large tropical plants and we are only working on small areas of each one so measuring traditional dependent variables like flowing, seed count, growth rate, etc. will not work. Do you have any ideas for how we could assess tropical plant leaf responses to phyllosphere community variation? Thanks a bunch!! -- Dr. Geoffrey Zahn Botany Department University of Hawaii at Monoa 3190 Maile Way, Room 101, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA http://geoffreyzahn.com<http://geoffreyzahn.com/>
