Presentation Year
2016
Depreciated Participant
Crystal S. NeuenschwanderBotanyUndergraduate Student
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Interactions of Mycorrhizae, Native Grasses and Quercus douglasii in California blue oak woodlands.
California's endemic blue oak is not regenerating and despite many studies, no one has found any reasons as to why. The trees make lot's of acorns, the acorns germinate fine, but the saplings fail to properly establish and typically die before reaching maturity. This investigation looks at a potential reason as to why this is, focused on invasive annual grasses that have almost entirely replaced the native perennial species.
H1: Grass species affects the rate of mycorrhizal infection in Q. douglasii seedlings.
H0: Mycorrhizal infection rate of Q. douglasii is independent of grass species.
California's endemic blue oak is not regenerating and despite many studies, no one has found any reasons as to why. The trees make lot's of acorns, the acorns germinate fine, but the saplings fail to properly establish and typically die before reaching maturity. This investigation looks at a potential reason as to why this is, focused on invasive annual grasses that have almost entirely replaced the native perennial species.
H1: Grass species affects the rate of mycorrhizal infection in Q. douglasii seedlings.
H0: Mycorrhizal infection rate of Q. douglasii is independent of grass species.
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