Greetings. I am a high school biology teacher new to this list. In the summer, I am involved with research on Conesus Lake studying the impacts of agricultural management practices on downstream macrophyte communities (http://www.envsci.brockport.edu/Conesus_Project). Last summer I conducted several "shoot" nutrient enhancement experiments, as opposed to root enhancement, with milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), testing the hypothesis that plants receiving nutrients from a run-off event would exhibit a faster growth rate. Basically, I exposed the shoots of milfoil plants to varying concentrations of nitrate (KNO3) and phosphate (KH2PO4) for 24 hours in situ. Then measured each plants growth over a period of 3 weeks. The results are not conclusive but warrant further investigation. Does anyone have any experience with this type of experiment or have any advice on this type of investigation? If so, please email me offlist to avoid email "clutter."
Thank you and I look forward to participating in this forum, Todd Shuskey "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." - Indiana Jones Todd Shuskey Perry High School 33 Watkins Avenue Perry, NY 14530 (585)237-0270 x 1100
