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Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Holly Bik June 6, 2012 18S rRNA Community Ecology Deepwater Horizon DNA Barcoding Fungi Gulf of Mexico high-throughput sequencing Meiofauna metagenomics nematodes Oil Spill plos one

Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…

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Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights

Holly Bik November 30, 2011 18S rRNA 454 sequencing Community Ecology deep sea eukaryotes metagenomics nematodes

Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this…

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Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?

Jarrett Byrnes February 18, 2011 Community Ecology diversity extinction food web Invasion Jarrett Byrnes Scientist In Residence trophic level

February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…

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(Sieve) Size Matters

Kevin Zelnio October 27, 2009 benthic Best of Zelnio Biomass Community Ecology deep sea Ecology Meiofauna Mesh Methodology RB Editor's Selection Sampling Design Sediment Sieve Species Diversity

Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these…

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