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PLANT–SOIL FEEDBACK

Water shifts the balance of coexistence

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Experimentally manipulating precipitation levels in a plant–soil feedback experiment reveals changes to the interactions between plants and soil microbes that render community dynamics less predictable under wetter conditions.

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Fig. 1: PSF under different precipitation levels.

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