Firstly, on behalf of the Editorial Board I’d like to thank all of you for your contributions and support of the site. PrometheusWiki is a volunteer based effort and it’s growing success is a reflection of your input. As the statistics on the protocols above shows use of PrometheusWiki is increasing steadily. We are now receiving over 5000 page views per month, some protocols downloaded over 2500 times.

PrometheusWiki thanks the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at the University of Western Sydney, and the Divisions of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics & Plant Science at the Research School of Biology, The Australian National University for their generous support.

 

This protocol details how to collect rhizosphere soil from the field and then isolate different biophysical microenvironments from both rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil. Read more.

Measure soil nutrients in-situ using ion-exchange resin membranes: This protocol is ideal for ecological studies in which laboratory analysis of soil is unsuitable for elucidating the dynamics of labile nutrients, such as N and P. Read more.

PrometheusWiki is currently seeking Associate Editors and Editorial Interns.

Come and hear Editor-in-Chief Adrienne Nicotra introduce PrometheusWiki on Friday 29 July at 15:10.
For more information see http://ibc2011.com/

Record cumulative photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) using low-cost sensors you can make in the lab. Check out the new protocol from Francisco M. Padilla, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Fernando Valladares, Cristina Armas, and Juan de Dios Miranda.