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Fungal friends against drought

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Fungal-based food webs of undisturbed grasslands resist and adapt to the effects of drought more than bacterial-based food webs of agricultural soils, indicating how soil biota might be able to withstand long-term climate change.

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Figure 1: The hierarchical influence of factors determining soil ecosytem services.

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  1. Johan Six is in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA,

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