Greater nutrient variety can counterintuitively shrink microbial diversity, experiments reveal

Microbial communities are considered particularly diverse—in soil, water and the human body. A common assumption in ecology is that the greater the diversity of available nutrients, the more species can coexist. A research team at the University of Tübingen…

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