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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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Ke, PJ. Water shifts the balance of coexistence. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 496–497 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01725-y

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