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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Main Authors: Jiahuan Li, Lizhu Guo, Gail W. T. Wilson, Adam B. Cobb, Kun Wang, Li Liu, Huan Zhao, Ding Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-11-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02082-x