Soil Microbes and Fertility: A Look into the Past (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Soil Microbes and Fertility: A Look into the Past (1 of 4)

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Rebecca McCulley, one of the co-authors of this study, collecting a soil core from a prairie in Minnesota. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 Nov., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Noah Fierer at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, CO, and colleagues was titled, "Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States."

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[Image courtesy of Rebecca McCulley]

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