Assessing soil microbes that drive fairy ring patterns in temperate semiarid grasslands
Abstract Background Fairy rings occur in diverse global biomes; however, there is a critical knowledge gap regarding drivers of fairy rings in grassland ecosystems. Grassland fairy rings are characterized belowground by an expanding mycelial front and aboveground by vigorous vegetation rings that de...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2022-11-01
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Series: | BMC Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02082-x |