Spatial assortment of soil organisms supports the size-plasticity hypothesis

Abstract The size-plasticity hypothesis posits that larger size organisms are less plastic in their metabolic rates and, therefore, are more strongly environmental-filtered than smaller organisms. Many studies have supported this hypothesis by evaluating the relative roles of environmental filtratio...

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Main Authors: Alain Isabwe, Haifeng Yao, Shixiu Zhang, Yuji Jiang, Martin F. Breed, Xin Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2022-10-01
Series:ISME Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00185-6