Pine branches isotoma species (callembola)Moss sample

Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility - Typical Samples Analysed at Lancaster

Lancaster-based analysts specialise in the 15N and/or 13C stable isotopic analyses of a wide range of sample types at enriched or natural abundance levels including:

  • Soil, Vegetation, Fungi.
  • Soil Fauna (Mites, Springtails, Enchytraeds etc).
  • Acid traps/passive samplers/diffusion tubes.
  • K2SO4 extracts, KCl extracts/leachates.
  • Ammonium + nitrate.
  • Trace gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O), Nitrogen gas (denitrification/nitrification).
  • Biochemical molecules .

Fungal fruiting bodies

Enchytraeid worms

Proisotoma minuta