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These might help you make your journey
more successful and enjoyable - :-)
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Take a stick with you while going into the backwoods to make your way through
the spider webs. It helps!
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Protozoa testing needs time. Therefore make sure to make a schedule before
starting the actual process.
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Make sure all three plots are located close to each other in order to control
for any environmental differences
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Do
check the weather conditions every day.
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Keep
a stable gram measure while sifting the soil. This would lessen the load of
calculations.
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During the Uhlig extraction if the water level does not reach the bottom layer
of the cups then make sure to add 5 ml of distilled water to the particular
sample and the note the difference while calculating.
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When removing the qualitative filter paper
from the funnels, pull out the outermost layers together over a trashcan.
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Cover the control with clear saran wrap instead of leaving the ground bare.
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Make sure all the Petri dishes are labeled before transferring any samples
into them.
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Make sure all the sources that you use for research are reliable - .gov, .edu
are the best ones.
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Make sure to clean all the soil core samplers before reusing them.
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Instead of coring the soil at depths 0 -
10cm and 10 - 20 cm, do 0 - 15cm and 15 - 30cm depths.
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While counting the protozoa make sure you
do not mistake any other organisms instead.
