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Elevated Carbon Dioxide Changes Soil Microbe Mix Below Plants

12-19-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

A detailed analysis of soil samples taken from a forest ecosystem with artificially elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO

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