Proximate grassland and shrub-encroached sites show dramatic restructuring of soil bacterial communities
Background Changes in aboveground community composition and diversity following shrub encroachment have been studied extensively. Recently, shrub encroachment was associated with differences in belowground bacterial communities relative to non-encroached grassland sites hundreds of meters away. This...
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/7304.pdf |