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Dishing the dirt on carbon cycling

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The roles that microorganisms play in carbon storage are not fully understood. Now modelling results show that the activity of a single group of soil fungi may significantly enhance ecosystem carbon-storage capacity.

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Figure 1: Schematic of models used to study carbon cycling in soils.

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  1. Jennifer M. Talbot and Kathleen K. Treseder are at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92617-2525, USA,

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Talbot, J., Treseder, K. Dishing the dirt on carbon cycling. Nature Clim Change 1, 144–146 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1125

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