Project progress update: isotope samples submitted & data analysis underway!

With the financial backing of our donors, we were able to submit foliar tissue from our experiment for stable carbon isotope analysis at the UC Davis Stable Isotope Facility (https://stableisotopefacility.ucdavis.edu/).

As soon as the SIF processes our samples (we are told that will be completed within the next few months) and provides those data to us, we will plug those data into our data analysis pipeline. We are currently refining our data analysis pipeline using the morphological and physiological data collected during the experiment. At this rate, we anticipate submitting this work for publication in a peer-reviewed science journal in early summer 2022!