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The artist who co-authored a paper and expanded my professional network

Karine Bonneval’s residency in Matthias Rillig’s lab, and a question he first dismissed as silly, had unexpected consequences for each of them.
  1. Matthias C. Rillig

    1. Matthias C. Rillig is an ecologist at the Free University of Berlin.

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  2. Karine Bonneval

    1. Karine Bonneval is a French artist whose work focuses on interactions between humans and plants. You can reach her at: https://www.karinebonneval.com/eng/contact.

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Matthias: In February 2016, the French artist Karine Bonneval contacted my ecology laboratory at the Free University of Berlin to ask about a residency. I and my colleagues focus on soil biodiversity, and we hadn’t been asked to host an artist before.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00575-7

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  1. Rillig, M. C., Bonneval, K. & Lehmann, J. Soil Syst. 3, 45 (2019).

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