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    State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China<\/p>\n

    Kunkun Fan\u00a0&\u00a0Haiyan Chu<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China<\/p>\n

    Kunkun Fan\u00a0&\u00a0Haiyan Chu<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<\/p>\n

    Tadeo S\u00e1ez-Sandino,\u00a0Chao Xiong\u00a0&\u00a0Juntao Wang<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Environmental Science and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n

    Fernando T. Maestre<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia<\/p>\n

    David J. Eldridge\u00a0&\u00a0Samantha K. Travers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Sistemas F\u00edsicos, Qu\u00edmicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain<\/p>\n

    Antonio Gallardo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    State Key Laboratory of Soil Pollution Control and Safety, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China<\/p>\n

    Bin Ma,\u00a0Jianming Xu\u00a0&\u00a0Yuzhuo Zhao<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural, Resources and Environment, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China<\/p>\n

    Bin Ma,\u00a0Jianming Xu\u00a0&\u00a0Yuzhuo Zhao<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Agriculture and Environment, UWA Institute of Agriculture University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia<\/p>\n

    Chao Xiong,\u00a0Juntao Wang\u00a0&\u00a0Brajesh K. Singh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Estaci\u00f3n Experimental de Zonas \u00c1ridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, Almer\u00eda, Spain<\/p>\n

    Emilio Guirado\u00a0&\u00a0Jaime Mart\u00ednez-Valderrama<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Unit\u00e9 Mixte de Recherche Ecosyst\u00e8me Prairial, Universit\u00e9 Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Clermont-Ferrand, France<\/p>\n

    Nicolas Gross<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Avignon Universit\u00e9, IRD, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France<\/p>\n

    Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Instituto Universitario de Investigaci\u00f3n en el Olivar y Aceites de Oliva-INUO, Universidad de Ja\u00e9n, Jaen, Spain<\/p>\n

    Victoria Ochoa\u00a0&\u00a0Antonio Manzaneda<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda y Morfolog\u00eda del Terreno, Escuela T\u00e9cnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    Miguel Garc\u00eda-G\u00f3mez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    Enrique Valencia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Technology, National University of Luj\u00e1n, Lujan, Argentina<\/p>\n

    Juan J. Gait\u00e1n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/p>\n

    Juan J. Gait\u00e1n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Grupo de Ecolox\u00eda Animal (GEA), Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain<\/p>\n

    Sergio Asensio<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Biolog\u00eda y Geolog\u00eda, F\u00edsica y Qu\u00edmica Inorg\u00e1nica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Spain<\/p>\n

    Betty Josefina Mendoza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio \u2018Ram\u00f3n Margalef\u2019, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain<\/p>\n

    Beatriz G\u00f3zalo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Eco-Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China<\/p>\n

    Jinsong Liang<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada<\/p>\n

    Lauchlan H. Fraser\u00a0&\u00a0Jay Singh<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Direcci\u00f3n de Investigaci\u00f3n, Vicerrector\u00eda Acad\u00e9mica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile<\/p>\n

    Alex Fajardo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Instituto de Ecolog\u00eda y Biodiversidad (IEB), Nunoa, Chile<\/p>\n

    Alex Fajardo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Millenium Nucleus of Patagonian Limit-of-Life (LiLi), Valdivia, Chile<\/p>\n

    Alex Fajardo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Doctoral Program in Sciences mention in Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Campus Talca, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile<\/p>\n

    Juan P. Mora<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Laboratorio de Ecolog\u00eda Tropical y Servicios Ecosist\u00e9micos-EcoSs Lab, Departamento de Ciencias Biol\u00f3gicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad T\u00e9cnica Particular de Loja-Ecuador, Loja, Ecuador<\/p>\n

    Carlos Ivan Espinosa\u00a0&\u00a0Elizabeth Gusm\u00e1n-Montalv\u00e1n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Lend\u00fclet Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vacratot, Hungary<\/p>\n

    Orsolya Valk\u00f3\u00a0&\u00a0Bal\u00e1zs De\u00e1k<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Katif R&D Center, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology and The Kaye Academic College, Beer Sheva, Israel<\/p>\n

    Eli Zaady<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p>\n

    Bazartseren Boldgiv\u00a0&\u00a0Batdelger Erdenetsetseg<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany<\/p>\n

    Niels Blaum\u00a0&\u00a0Katja Geissler<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Biodiversity Research and Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany<\/p>\n

    Katja Geissler\u00a0&\u00a0Anja Linst\u00e4dter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, USA<\/p>\n

    Lixin Wang<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia<\/p>\n

    Gillian Maggs-K\u00f6lling\u00a0&\u00a0Eugene Marais<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa<\/p>\n

    Gillian Maggs-K\u00f6lling\u00a0&\u00a0Frances Siebert<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany<\/p>\n

    Pierre Liancourt<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Plant Ecology Group, University of T\u00fcbingen, Tubingen, Germany<\/p>\n

    Pierre Liancourt\u00a0&\u00a0Jan Ruppert<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    KomBioTa\u2014Center for Biodiversity and Integrative Taxonomy, University of Hohenheim and State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, Germany<\/p>\n

    Pierre Liancourt<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Misi\u00f3n Biol\u00f3gica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, Pontevedra, Spain<\/p>\n

    Jorge Dur\u00e1n\u00a0&\u00a0Alexandra Rodr\u00edguez<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    cE3c\u2014Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes and CHANGE\u2014Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal<\/p>\n

    Alice Nunes\u00a0&\u00a0Cristina Branquinho<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa<\/p>\n

    Peter C. le Roux\u00a0&\u00a0Michelle A. Louw<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa<\/p>\n

    Thulani Makhalanyane\u00a0&\u00a0Girish R. Nair<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Phalaborwa, South Africa<\/p>\n

    Anthony Swemmer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Forest Research Group, INDEHESA, University of Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain<\/p>\n

    Gerardo Moreno\u00a0&\u00a0Mar\u00eda Vivas<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Instituto Pirenaico de Ecolog\u00eda (IPE), CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain<\/p>\n

    Yolanda Pueyo\u00a0&\u00a0Ana Foronda<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Biolog\u00eda Animal, Biolog\u00eda Vegetal y Ecolog\u00eda, Universidad de Ja\u00e9n, Jaen, Spain<\/p>\n

    Pedro J. Rey\u00a0&\u00a0Antonio Manzaneda<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA<\/p>\n

    Matthew Bowker<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA<\/p>\n

    Matthew Bowker<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Biological Sciences, El Paso, TX, USA<\/p>\n

    Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA<\/p>\n

    Heather L. Throop<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA<\/p>\n

    Heather L. Throop<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    Asunci\u00f3n de los R\u00edos<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Biolog\u00eda, Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n Vitivin\u00edcola y Agroalimentaria (IVAGRO), Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Universidad de C\u00e1diz, Puerto Real, Spain<\/p>\n

    Jos\u00e9 Luis Blanco Pastor<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/p>\n

    Tina Unuk Nahberger\u00a0&\u00a0Tine Grebenc<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecolog\u00eda y Evoluci\u00f3n, Facultad de Ciencias Biol\u00f3gicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    Miguel Berdugo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    C\u00e9sar Plaza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    C\u00e9sar Plaza<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

    Ana Rey<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Life and Environmental Sciences and Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA<\/p>\n

    Stephen C. Hart\u00a0&\u00a0Asmeret A. Berhe<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    GEMA Center for Genomics, Ecology and Environment, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile<\/p>\n

    Fernando Alfaro<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    L\u00edneas de Base P\u00fablicas, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Gobierno de Chile, Santiago, Chile<\/p>\n

    Sebastian Abades<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Institut f\u00fcr Mikrobiologie, Universit\u00e4t Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria<\/p>\n

    Sigrid Neuhauser<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA<\/p>\n

    Mark A. Williams<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia<\/p>\n

    Daniel Montesinos<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia<\/p>\n

    Daniel Montesinos<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal<\/p>\n

    Daniel Montesinos<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic<\/p>\n

    Petr Macek<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia<\/p>\n

    Petr Macek\u00a0&\u00a0Lauri Laanisto<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosist\u00e9mico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiolog\u00eda de Sevilla (IRNAS) CSIC, Seville, Spain<\/p>\n

    Miriam Mu\u00f1oz-Rojas\u00a0&\u00a0Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA<\/p>\n

    Ra\u00fal Rom\u00e1n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Department of Agronomy, University of Almer\u00eda, Almer\u00eda, Spain<\/p>\n

    Ra\u00fal Rom\u00e1n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Centre for Applied Ecology \u2018Prof. Baeta Neves\u2019 (CEABN\u2011InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal<\/p>\n

    Borja Rodriguez Lozano<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    M.D.-B., B.K.S., F.T.M., H.C., T.S.-S. and K.F. developed the original idea of the analyses presented in the paper. Methodology was developed by M.D.-B., T.S.-S., K.F., H.C., F.T.M., B.K.S., B.M., J.X., Y.Z., C.X., J.W., J.L. and E.G. The investigation and sampling were carried out by a large team including M.D.-B., K.F., H.C., T.S.-S., F.T.M., B.K.S., B.M., J.X., Y.Z., D.J.E., A.G., C.X., E.G., N.G., Y.L.B.-P., V.O., M.G.-G., E.V., J.J.G., S. Asensio, B.J.M., J.M.-V., B.G., J.W., J.L., S.K.T., L.H.F., J.S., A. Fajardo, J.P.M., C.I.E., E.G.-M., O.V., B.D., E.Z., B.B., B.E., N.B., K.G., L.W., G.M.-K., E.M., P.L., J.D., A. Rodr\u00edguez, A.N., C.B., P.C.R., M.A.L., A.L., F.S., T.M., G.R.N., J.R., A.S., G.M., M.V., Y.P., A. Fajardo, P.J.R., A.M., M. Bowker, A.D.-N., H.L.T., A.d.l.R., J.L.B.P., T.U.N., T.G., M. Berdugo, C.P., A. Rey, S.C.H., F.A., S. Abades, S.N., M.A.W., A.A.B., D.M., P.M., L.L., M.M.-R., R.R. and B.R.L. Project administration was overseen by M.D.-B., H.C., B.K.S., F.T.M., B.M. and Y.Z. Supervision was provided by M.D.-B., B.K.S., F.T.M., H.C. and T.S.-S. The original draft was written by K.F., T.S.-S., H.C., M.D.-B., F.T.M., B.K.S. and D.J.E. and revised with contributions from all co-authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1134467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3843],"tags":[308604,4675,66864,728,308605,27174,70,10787,16,15],"class_list":["post-1134466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-bacterial-genes","tag-biodiversity","tag-biogeography","tag-environment","tag-fungal-genes","tag-microbial-ecology","tag-science","tag-sustainable-development","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}