Soil microbial communities associated with giant sequoia: How does the world’s largest tree affect some of the world’s smallest organisms?
C. J. Carey, S. I. Glassman, T. D. Bruns, E. L. Aronson, S. C. Hart
The paper examines soil microbial communities under giant sequoia and sugar pine, finding tree-associated differences in bacterial/archaeal richness and fungal composition, influenced by soil factors.
bioRxiv · Oct 17, 2019Ecology