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Species–area relationships in microbial-mediated mutualisms. / Veresoglou, Stavros D.; Johnson, David.
In: Trends in Microbiology, Vol. 31, No. 11, 30.11.2023, p. 1111-1117.

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Veresoglou, SD & Johnson, D 2023, 'Species–area relationships in microbial-mediated mutualisms', Trends in Microbiology, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1111-1117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.008

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Veresoglou, S. D., & Johnson, D. (2023). Species–area relationships in microbial-mediated mutualisms. Trends in Microbiology, 31(11), 1111-1117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.008

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Veresoglou SD, Johnson D. Species–area relationships in microbial-mediated mutualisms. Trends in Microbiology. 2023 Nov 30;31(11):1111-1117. Epub 2023 Oct 9. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2023.05.008

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Veresoglou, Stavros D. ; Johnson, David. / Species–area relationships in microbial-mediated mutualisms. In: Trends in Microbiology. 2023 ; Vol. 31, No. 11. pp. 1111-1117.

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abstract = "Symbioses involving microorganisms prevail in nature and are key to regulating numerous ecosystem processes and in driving evolution. A major concern in understanding the ecology of symbioses involving microorganisms arises in the effectiveness of sampling strategies to capture the contrasting size of organisms involved. In many mutualisms, including mycorrhizas and gut systems, hosts interact simultaneously with multiple smaller sized mutualists, the identity of which determines success for the host. This complicates quantifying the diversity of mutualisms because sampling techniques fail to capture effectively the diversity of each partner. Here we propose the use of species–area relationships (SARs) to explicitly consider the spatial scale of microbial partners in symbioses, which we propose will improve our understanding of the ecology of mutualisms.",
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