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Soil was collected from 3 different agricultural sites. These soils will be used for forming the various soil communities in the EcoTubes.
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Seeds were sterilized and plated on agar in order to start germination and have seedlings ready for the EcoTube planting.
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A 4-level soil diversity gradient was created for each site soil and planted into 64 EcoTubes with 40 plant individuals of 10 different grassland species.
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All plants were harvested from each EcoTube at 5cm and soil cores were extracted for later analysis.
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All plants were harvested from each EcoTube at 5cm and soil cores were extracted for later analysis.
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All plants were harvested from each EcoTube at 5cm and soil cores were extracted for later analysis.
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Final harvesting of all plants out of EcoTubes.
