Short-term plant-soil feedback experiments fall short in predicting competition outcome of long-term field experiment

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Oct 11, 2022, 7:47 pm500 ptsHotTop
The cause-effect sequence or "feedback" between plants and their soil microbial communities plays an important role in structuring plant communities. To predict this synergistic coexistence, researchers conduct short-term, pairwise experiments—measuring growth response of two plant species growing in soil…

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