Studying Invasive Species: the LI-6800 Trial Winner
Invasive species can alter ecosystems and food chains. None are quite like Tamarisk, also known as salt cedar. Tamarisk sucks up a ton of water and deposits salt when it sheds its leaves, making the soil inhospitable to other plants. “There’s not much left when Tamarisk comes to town,” says Randy Long, a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Randy’s doctoral dissertation is studying the local adaption of Tamarisk to environmental gradients, as well as interactions of…