Has sediment flux from western/eastern tributaries to the Mississippi River changed since late Pleistocene-early Holocene times?

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Does anyone have a good protocol for taking soil samples and extracting fungal DNA?

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Drew Coe

Look at the work Patrick Belmont and others have done on the Minnesota River.

https://www.cnr.usu.edu/files/uploads/faculty/Belmont/gran_et_al_2009.pdf

Cody Curtis Mason

Thanks for the reference Drew. That group does good work.

Thomas J. Loebel

Check out some of the work by Art Bettis in Iowa, Don McKay at the ISGS, and Ed Hajic.

Thanks Thomas, will do!