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Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

High in the rainforest canopy, epiphytic plants face the challenge of obtaining the nutrients they need without having contact with the soil. This project investigates nutrient acquisition challenges and strategies between epiphytic plants found in two different forest types in the Peruvian Amazon: relatively nutrient-rich forests with a clay...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Near infrared spectroscopy (FT-NIR) is a fast, cost-effective technology that measures the irradiation of organic molecules inside of a leaf. The spectrometer makes chemical bonds vibrate and generate a wave response that corresponds to the leaf’s internal chemical composition (both qualitative and quantitative). These signals have been shown...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

There are many missing taxa in the molecular phylogeny of Burseraceae. Some of these missing taxa are endemic to extremely remote geographic locations and far away from their closest putative relatives. We will extract DNA from dried leaves, and get samples ready for genomic sequencing...

Paul Fine - Professor, Integrative Biology

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