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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022-10-01
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Series: | ISME Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-022-00185-6 |