How Soil Bacteria and Fungi Drive Plant Diversity (3 of 12) (IMAGE)

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How Soil Bacteria and Fungi Drive Plant Diversity (3 of 12)

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Hyperdiverse kwongan shrublands. Overview of some of the field sites where soil collections occurred in hyperdiverse kwongan shrublands near Lesueur National Park, Western Australia (30°S, 115°E). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan 13. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by F.P. Teste at The University of Western Australia in Crawley, WA, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands."

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Etienne Laliberté

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