Dr. Nicholas Medina will travel to the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) LTER and sample soils for eDNA extraction and ITS sequencing. The results will complement MSP data on tree distribution, soil nutrients, heavy metals, and earthworms, while expanding Nicholas’ work on the temporal dynamics of mycorrhizal fungal exploration traits.
Nicholas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Morton Arboretum. He studies belowground habitats, focusing on how and why communities of fungi in symbiosis with roots change over time and across host tree species.
