High throughput nitrogen analysis for ecological studies

澳大利亚的环境是非生产性的，部分原因是它们含有很少的氮（N），大气中二氧化碳的变化将加剧这一点。 此外，动物不能从它们吃的植物中提取所有的氮。 已经开发了一种测定方法，可以测量它们可以提取多少（有效氮），并打算用它来测量栖息地质量和气候变化对大片土地的影响。 这需要成千上万的N分析。 我们要求的设备-LECO燃烧分析仪，使我们能够快速安全地分析样品，并且比传统机器使用更少的化学品和更少的水。

Australian environments are unproductive partly because they contain little Nitrogen (N) and changes in atmospheric CO2 will exacerbate this. Furthermore, animals cannot extract all the N from the plants they eat. An assay has been developed that measures how much they can extract (available N) and it is intended to use it to measure habitat quality and the effects of climate change over large tracts of land. This requires thousands of N analyses. The equipment we are requesting - a LECO combustion analyser, allows us to analyse samples quickly and safely and uses fewer chemicals and much less water than do traditional machines.