Class Glossary

BIOLOG / ECOPLATES – Methods that measure the capacity of a microbial sample to degrade a variety of many different carbon compounds.  Read review of technique here.

Ordination techniques – a family of methods for identifying relationships between ecological communities OR for describing complex environmental gradients including multiple factors. Good information here

 

Redox Ladder – the predictable sequence of microbial metabolic pathways that occur with time following flooding of a soil or with depth below the soil/water interface.

 

 

 

 

 

PLFA – phospholipid fatty acids

Pyrosequencing-

SEED.org-

sequence space-

Shotgun sequencing-

16sRNA –

tRFLP – terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism – check out the Wikipedia tRFLP entry

Unifrac-

Winogradsky column: see Wikipedia entry for this term .   Here is a handout on how to make a Winogradsky_column.

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