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  • Overview of some of the field sites where soil collections occurred in hyperdiverse kwongan shrublands near Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credits: Etienne Laliberté and Graham Zemunik.

    Soil organisms maintain high plant diversity

    Infertile shrublands in Australia host an exceptionally high number of plant species. How the species can coexist while competing for limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades. Researchers, including two from SLU, suggest that part of the answer for such high plant diversity could reside in the myriad of root-associated organisms that live in soils. The study is published in Science.