David M Vaughan Certified Arborist TX 0118

Etter Tree CareArborVaughan Consult, LLC

San Antonio Arborist AssociationISA Texas Chapter

Certified Organic TORC Tree Risk Assessment Qualified

Gut Most microbes in

human body live in gastrointestinal tract.

About 100 TRILLION Most are beneficial Weigh about 2

pounds Influence immune

system, metabolism, digestion, brain function

Fecal Microbial Transplant

90% Cure Rate

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Your first introduction to the soil food web may have been through the good Doctor.

Tablespoon of soil has 6 billion microbes.

75,000 species of bacteria25,000 species of fungi1,000 species protozoa

100 species nematodes.

BACTERIA & ARCHAEA FUNGI

PROTOZOA NEMATODE

SOIL MITE MITE

The tree supplies all the carbon required for life in the soil.

It can change the Carbon sugars to fit conditions and it’s needs.

Exudates.

COMPLEX COMPOUNDS HUMIC ACID MICRO MANIPULATED

PLANT CELL WALL ECTO AND ENDO

CONNECT DIFFERENT SPECIES

MOTHER TREE TO HER SEEDLINGS

NITROGEN CYCLEPHOTO COURTESY MICHAEL G. VAUGHAN

IRON MAGNESIUM

MANGANESE ZINC

COHESION ADHESION

Teaming With Microbes• Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

Http://www.radiolab.org/story/from-tree-to-shining-tree/. Suzanne Simard

Up By Roots• James Urban

The Soil Will Save Us• Kristin Ohlson

David M. Vaughan Certified Arborist TX Etter Tree Care San Antonio Arborist

Association Certified Organic

TORC

For coffee it’s 5, for tomatoes it’s 4;While household ammonia’s 11 or more. It’s 7 for water, if in a pure state.But rainwater’s 6 and sea water is 8. It’s basic at 10, quite acidic at 2And well above 7 when litmus turns blue.Some find it a puzzlement. Doubtless their

fogHas something to do with that negative log. Dorris Kolb

ENDO OR ARBUSCULAR ECTO

NUTRIENT CYCLINGIMOBILIZATION INTENSE BIOLOGY

MINERALIZATION

BACTERIA BIOFILM/SLIME FUNGUS GLOMALIN