Build your own soil: exploring microfluidics to create microbial habitat structures

Abstract

Soil is likely the most complex ecosystem on earth. Despite the global importance and extraordinary diversity of soils, they have been notoriously challenging to study. We show how pioneering microfluidic techniques provide new ways of studying soil microbial ecology by allowing simulation and manipulation of chemical conditions and physical structures at the microscale in soil model habitats.

Published in

ISME Journal
2018, volume: 12, number: 2, pages: 312-319
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP

SLU Authors

• Aleklett Kadish, Kristin

  • Lund University

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology
Soil Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.184

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/109135