Multiple targeted grassland restoration interventions enhance ecosystem service multifunctionality

Liu, S., Ward, S. E., Wilby, A., Manning, P., Gong, M., Davies, J., Killick, R., Quinton, J. N. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/04/2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 3971.

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Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant–Soil Feedback of a Semi‐Arid Grassland

Li, X., Png, G. K., Zhang, Z., Guo, F., Li, Y., Li, F., Luo, S., Ostle, N. J., Quinton, J. N., Schaffner, U. A., Hou, X., Wardle, D. A. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/03/2025, In: Global Change Biology. 31, 3, e70084.

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Plant phylogeny, traits and fungal community composition as drivers of plant–soil feedbacks

Sweeney, C. J., Semchenko, M., de Vries, F. T., van Dongen, B. E. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/03/2025, In: Journal of Ecology. 113, 3, p. 608-620 13 p.

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Defoliation modifies the impact of drought on the transfer of recent plant-assimilated carbon to soil and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

Xu, T., Johnson, D. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/02/2025, In: Plant and Soil. 507, 1-2, p. 693–711 19 p.

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Using dynamic documents to mend cracks in the reproducible research pipeline

Buckley, Y. M., Bardgett, R., Gordon, R., Iler, A., Mariotte, P., Ponton, S. & Hector, A., 28/02/2025, In: Journal of Ecology. 113, 2, p. 270-274 5 p.

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Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function

Oram, N. J., Brennan, F., Praeg, N., Bardgett, R. D., Illmer, P., Ingrisch, J. & Bahn, M., 31/01/2025, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 200, 109644.

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Contrasting responses of plant, soil fungal and above-ground arthropod communities to plant invasion across latitudes

Gao, L., Fan, F., He, Y., Wei, C., Xu, H., Liu, X., Lu, X. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/10/2024, In: Journal of Ecology. 112, 10, p. 2333-2343 11 p.

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Defoliation modifies the response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to drought in temperate grassland

Xu, T., Johnson, D. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/05/2024, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 192, 109386.

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Diana Wall obituary: ecologist who foresaw the importance of soil biodiversity

Bardgett, R. D., 23/05/2024, In: Nature. 629, 754.

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Deforestation impacts soil biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide

Qu, X., Li, X., Bardgett, R. D., Kuzyakov, Y., Revillini, D., Sonne, C., Xia, C., Ruan, H., Liu, Y., Cao, F., Reich, P. B. & Delgado-Baquerizo, M., 26/03/2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 13, e2318475121.

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Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands

Lavallee, J. M., Chomel, M., Alvarez Segura, N., de Castro, F., Goodall, T., Magilton, M., Rhymes, J. M., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Griffiths, R. I., Baggs, E. M., Caruso, T., de Vries, F. T., Emmerson, M., Johnson, D. & Bardgett, R. D., 2/01/2024, In: Nature Communications. 15, 1, 29.

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High intensity perturbations induce an abrupt shift in soil microbial state

Cordero, I., Leizeaga, A., Hicks, L. C., Rousk, J. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/12/2023, In: ISME Journal. 17, 12, p. 2190-2199 10 p.

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Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs

Schrama, M., Quist, C. W., de Groot, G. A., Cieraad, E., Ashworth, D., Laros, I., Hansen, L. H., Leff, J., Fierer, N. & Bardgett, R. D., 29/11/2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 2011, 20231345.

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Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function

Walker, T. W. N., Schrodt, F., Allard, P.-M., Defossez, E., Jassey, V. E. J., Schuman, M. C., Alexander, J. M., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R. D., Capdevila, P., Coley, P. D., van Dam, N. M., David, B., Descombes, P., Endara, M.-J., Fernandez, C., Forrister, D., Gargallo-Garriga, A. & Glauser, G. & 11 others, Marr, S., Neumann, S., Pellissier, L., Peters, K., Rasmann, S., Roessner, U., Salguero-Gómez, R., Sardans, J., Weckwerth, W., Wolfender, J.-L. & Peñuelas, J., 30/09/2023, In: Science Advances. 9, 35, eadi4029.

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Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

Oram, N. J., Ingrisch, J., Bardgett, R. D., Brennan, F., Dittmann, G., Gleixner, G., Illmer, P., Praeg, N. & Bahn, M., 31/08/2023, In: Journal of Ecology. 111, 8, p. 1681-1699 19 p.

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Soil Abiotic Properties Shape Plant Functional Diversity Across Temperate Grassland Plant Communities

Rodríguez, A., de Vries, F. T., Manning, P., Sebastià, M. T. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/08/2023, In: Ecosystems. 26, 5, p. 1000-1017 18 p.

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A Transient Printed Soil Decomposition Sensor Based on a Biopolymer Composite Conductor

Atreya, M., Desousa, S., Kauzya, J., Williams, E., Hayes, A., Dikshit, K., Nielson, J., Palmgren, A., Khorchidian, S., Liu, S., Gopalakrishnan, A., Bihar, E., Bruns, C. J., Bardgett, R., Quinton, J. N., Davies, J., Neff, J. C. & Whiting, G. L., 14/02/2023, In: Advanced Science. 10, 5, 10 p., 2205785.

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Grassland degradation-induced declines in soil fungal complexity reduce fungal community stability and ecosystem multifunctionality

Luo, S., Png, G. K., Ostle, N. J., Zhou, H., Hou, X., Luo, C., Quinton, J. N., Schaffner, U., Sweeney, C., Wang, D., Wu, J., Wu, Y. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/01/2023, In: Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 176, 12 p., 108865.

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Ecosystem productivity has a stronger influence than soil age on surface soil carbon storage across global biomes

Plaza, C., García-Palacios, P., Berhe, A. A., Barquero, J., Bastida, F., Png, G. K., Rey, A., Bardgett, R. D. & Delgado-Baquerizo, M., 31/12/2022, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 3, 1, 233.

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Intensive grassland management disrupts below-ground multi-trophic resource transfer in response to drought

Chomel, M., Lavallee, J. M., Alvarez-Segura, N., Baggs, E. M., Caruso, T., de Castro, F., Emmerson, M. C., Magilton, M., Rhymes, J. M., de Vries, F. T., Johnson, D. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/12/2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 6991.

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Functional Traits 2.0: The power of the metabolome for ecology

Walker, T. W. N., Alexander, J. M., Allard, P., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R. D., Capdevila, P., Coley, P. D., David, B., Defossez, E., Endara, M., Ernst, M., Fernandez, C., Forrister, D., Gargallo‐Garriga, A., Jassey, V. E. J., Marr, S., Neumann, S., Pellissier, L. & Peñuelas, J. & 12 others, Peters, K., Rasmann, S., Roessner, U., Sardans, J., Schrodt, F., Schuman, M. C., Soule, A., Uthe, H., Weckwerth, W., Wolfender, J., van Dam, N. M. & Salguero‐Gómez, R., 31/01/2022, In: Journal of Ecology. 110, 1, p. 4-20 17 p.

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Shrub expansion modulates belowground impacts of changing snow conditions in alpine grasslands

Broadbent, A. A. D., Bahn, M., Pritchard, W. J., Newbold, L. K., Goodall, T., Guinta, A., Snell, H. S. K., Cordero, I., Michas, A., Grant, H. K., Soto, D. X., Kaufmann, R., Schloter, M., Griffiths, R. I. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/01/2022, In: Ecology Letters. 25, 1, p. 52-64 13 p.

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Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity–soil multifunctionality relationships

Hu, W., Ran, J., Dong, L., Du, Q., Ji, M., Yao, S., Sun, Y., Gong, C., Hou, Q., Gong, H., Chen, R., Lu, J., Xie, S., Wang, Z., Huang, H., Li, X., Xiong, J., Xia, R., Wei, M. & Zhao, D. & 23 others, Zhang, Y., Li, J., Yang, H., Wang, X., Deng, Y., Sun, Y., Li, H., Zhang, L., Chu, Q., Li, X., Aqeel, M., Manan, A., Akram, M. A., Liu, X., Li, R., Li, F., Hou, C., 刘建全, He, J.-S., An, L., Bardgett, R., Schmid, B. & 邓建明, 31/12/2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 5350.

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Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

Freschet, G. T., Roumet, C., Comas, L. H., Weemstra, M., Bengough, A. G., Rewald, B., Bardgett, R. D., De Deyn, G. B., Johnson, D., Klimešová, J., Lukac, M., McCormack, M. L., Meier, I. C., Pagès, L., Poorter, H., Prieto, I., Wurzburger, N., Zadworny, M., Bagniewska-Zadworna, A. & Blancaflor, E. B. & 16 others, Brunner, I., Gessler, A., Hobbie, S. E., Iversen, C. M., Mommer, L., Picon-Cochard, C., Postma, J. A., Rose, L., Ryser, P., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Sun, T., Valverde-Barrantes, O. J., Weigelt, A., York, L. M. & Stokes, A., 7/11/2021, In: New Phytologist. 232, 3, p. 1123-1158 36 p.

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Combatting global grassland degradation

Bardgett, R. D., Bullock, J. M., Lavorel, S., Manning, P., Schaffner, U., Ostle, N., Chomel, M., Durigan, G., Fry, E. L., Johnson, D., Lavallee, J. M., Provost, G. L., Luo, S., Png, K., Sankaran, M., Hou, X., Zhou, H., Ma, L., Ren, W. & Li, X. & 3 others, Ding, Y., Li, Y. & Shi, H., 31/10/2021, In: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2, 10, p. 720-735 16 p.

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Do soil depth and plant community composition interact to modify the resistance and resilience of grassland ecosystem functioning to drought?

Fry, E. L., Wilkinson, A., Johnson, D., Pritchard, W. J., Ostle, N. J., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 30/09/2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 17, p. 11960-11973 14 p.

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Variance, locality and structure: Three experimental challenges in the study of the response of soil microbial communities to multiple perturbations

Caruso, T. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/08/2021, In: Pedobiologia. 87-88, 150741.

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Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes

Bastida, F., Eldridge, D. J., García, C., Png, G. K., Bardgett, R. D. & Delgado-Baquerizo, M., 1/07/2021, In: The ISME Journal. 15, 7, p. 2081-2091 11 p.

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Are researchers following best storage practices for measuring soil biochemical properties?

Rhymes, J. M., Cordero, I., Chomel, M., Lavallee, J. M., Straathof, A. L., Ashworth, D., Langridge, H., Semchenko, M., de Vries, F. T., Johnson, D. & Bardgett, R. D., 26/04/2021, In: SOIL. 7, 1, p. 95-106 12 p.

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Nitrogen and phosphorus additions accelerate decomposition of slow carbon pool and lower total soil organic carbon pool in alpine meadows

Li, J. H., Cheng, B. H., Zhang, R., Li, W. J., Shi, X. M., Han, Y. W., Ye, L. F., Ostle, N. J. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/02/2021, In: Land Degradation and Development. 32, 4, p. 1761-1772 12 p.

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Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species

Sweeney, C. J., de Vries, F. T., van Dongen, B. E. & Bardgett, R. D., 28/02/2021, In: New Phytologist. 229, 3, p. 1492-1507 16 p.

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Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity: A monitoring and indicator system can inform policy

Guerra, C. A., Bardgett, R. D., Caon, L., Crowther, T. W., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Montanarella, L., Navarro, L. M., Orgiazzi, A., Singh, B. K., Tedersoo, L., Vargas-Rojas, R., Briones, M. J. I., Buscot, F., Cameron, E. K., Cesarz, S., Chatzinotas, A., Cowan, D. A., Djukic, I., Van Den Hoogen, J. & Lehmann, A. & 9 others, Maestre, F. T., Marín, C., Reitz, T., Rillig, M. C., Smith, L. C., De Vries, F. T., Weigelt, A., Wall, D. H. & Eisenhauer, N., 15/01/2021, In: Science. 371, 6526, p. 239-241 3 p.

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Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states

Bardgett, R. D. & Caruso, T., 16/03/2020, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375, 1794, 20190112.

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Microbial responses to warming enhance soil carbon loss following translocation across a tropical forest elevation gradient

Nottingham, A. T., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., Bardgett, R. D., McNamara, N. P., Fierer, N., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A. J. Q., Turner, B. L. & Meir, P., 1/11/2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 11, p. 1889-1899 11 p.

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Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments

Rineau, F., Malina, R., Beenaerts, N., Arnauts, N., Bardgett, R., Berg, M. P., Boerema, A., Bruckers, L., Clerinx, J., Davin, E. L., De Boeck, H. J., De Dobbelaer, T., Dondini, M., De Laender, F., Ellers, J., Franken, O., Gilbert, L., Gudmundsson, L., Janssens, I. A. & Johnson, D. & 25 others, Lizin, S., Longdoz, B., Meire, P., Meremans, D., Milbau, A., Moretti, M., Nijs, I., Nobel, A., Sorin Pop, L., Puetz, T., Reyns, W., Roy, J., Schuetz, J., Seneviratne, S. I., Smith, P., Solmi, F., Staes, J., Thiery, W., Thijs, S., Vanderkelen, I., Van Landuyt, W., Verbruggen, E., Witters, N., Zscheischler, J. & Vangronsveld, J., 1/11/2019, In: Nature Climate Change. 9, p. 809-816 8 p.

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Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity

Chomel, M., Lavallee, J. M., Alvarez‐segura, N., De Castro, F., Rhymes, J. M., Caruso, T., De Vries, F. T., Baggs, E. M., Emmerson, M. C., Bardgett, R. D. & Johnson, D., 31/10/2019, In: Global Change Biology. 25, 10, p. 3549-3561 13 p.

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Drought soil legacy overrides maternal effects on plant growth

De Long, J. R., Semchenko, M., Pritchard, W. J., Cordero, I., Fry, E. L., Jackson, B. G., Kurnosova, K., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 1/08/2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 8, p. 1400-1410 11 p.

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Soil biota, carbon cycling and crop plant biomass responses to biochar in a temperate mesocosm experiment

McCormack, S. A., Ostle, N., Bardgett, R. D., Hopkins, D. W., Pereira, M. G. & Vanbergen, A. J., 14/07/2019, In: Plant and Soil. 440, 1-2, p. 341-356 16 p.

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A few Ascomycota taxa dominate soil fungal communities worldwide

Egidi, E., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Plett, J. M., Wang, J., Eldridge, D. J., Bardgett, R. D., Maestre, F. T. & Singh, B. K., 30/05/2019, In: Nature Communications. 10, 1, 2369.

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A plant perspective on nitrogen cycling in the rhizosphere

Moreau, D., Bardgett, R. D., Finlay, R. D., Jones, D. L., Philippot, L. & Power, S. (Editor), 30/04/2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 4, p. 540-552 13 p.

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Relationships between plant traits, soil properties and carbon fluxes differ between monocultures and mixed communities in temperate grassland

De Long, J. R., Jackson, B. G., Wilkinson, A., Pritchard, W. J., Oakley, S., Mason, K. E., Stephan, J. G., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 25/03/2019, In: Journal of Ecology. 107, 4, p. 1704-1719 16 p.

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Using plant, microbe and soil fauna traits to improve the predictive power of biogeochemical models

Fry, E., De Long, J., Álvarez Garrido, L., Alvarez, N., Carrillo, Y., Castañeda-Gómez, L., Chomel, M., Dondini, M., Drake, J. E., Hasegawa, S., Hortal, S., Jackson, B. G., Jiang, M., Lavallee, J. M., Medlyn, B. E., Rhymes, J., Singh, B. K., Smith, P., Anderson, I. C. & Bardgett, R. & 2 others, Baggs, E. M. & Johnson, D., 31/01/2019, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10, 1, p. 146-157 11 p.

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Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands

Szukics, U., Grigulis, K., Legay, N., Kastl, E. M., Baxendale, C., Bardgett, R. D., Clément, J. C., Lavorel, S., Schloter, M. & Bahn, M., 15/01/2019, In: Science of the Total Environment. 648, p. 745-753 9 p.

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Plastic and genetic responses of a common sedge to warming have contrasting effects on carbon cycle processes

Walker, T. W. N., Weckwerth, W., Bragazza, L., Fragner, L., Forde, B. G., Ostle, N. J., Signarbieux, C., Sun, X., Ward, S. E. & Bardgett, R. D., 01/2019, In: Ecology Letters. 22, 1, p. 159-169 11 p.

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Root architecture governs plasticity in response to drought

Fry, E. L., Evans, A. L., Sturrock, C. J., Bullock, J. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 31/12/2018, In: Plant and Soil. 433, 1-2, p. 189-200 12 p.

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Microbes follow Humboldt: temperature drives plant and soil microbial diversity patterns from the Amazon to the Andes

Nottingham, A. T., Fierer, N., Turner, B. L., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N. J., McNamara, N. P., Bardgett, R. D., Leff, J. W., Salinas, N., Silman, M. R., Kruuk, L. E. B. & Meir, P., 1/11/2018, In: Ecology. 99, 11, p. 2455-2466 12 p.

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Soil multifunctionality and drought resistance are determined by plant structural traits in restoring grassland

Fry, E. L., Savage, J., Hall, A. L., Oakley, S., Pritchard, W. J., Ostle, N. J., Pywell, R. F., Bullock, J. M. & Bardgett, R. D., 20/08/2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ecology.

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Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks

de Vries, F. T., Griffiths, R. I., Bailey, M., Craig, H., Girlanda, M., Gweon, H. S., Hallin, S., Kaisermann, A., Keith, A. M., Kretzschmar, M., Lemanceau, P., Lumini, E., Mason, K. E., Oliver, A., Ostle, N., Prosser, J. I., Thion, C., Thomson, B. & Bardgett, R. D., 2/08/2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 12 p., 3033.

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Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits

Leff, J. W., Bardgett, R. D., Wilkinson, A., Jackson, B. G., Pritchard, W. J., de Long, J. R., Oakley, S., Mason, K. E., Ostle, N. J., Johnson, D., Baggs, E. M. & Fierer, N., 1/07/2018, In: ISME Journal. 12 p.

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