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Jul 2026
Microbial drought resistance is achieved at the expense of soil carbon loss
It is shown that soil microbes adapt to aridity by shifting their yield, resource acquisition and stress tolerance strategies, and that aridification amplifies the effects of these strategies on soil carbon mineralization.
Xuesen Pang, Chengjie Ren, Nianpeng He et al.
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