Study sites (a) and two vegetation types (b, c) (i.e. SFs and RPs).

🔎 Forest conversion ➡️ #SoilBacterialCommunityCompositionAndDiversity❓

📖 Background:
Tropical #SecondaryForests (SFs) ➡️ #RubberPlantations (RPs)

Results:
SF ➡️ RP, soil pH ⬇️.

#SoilPhysicochemicalProperties

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Conversion of tropical secondary forests into rubber plantations reduces network complexity and diversity of soil bacterial community Abstract. Due to large-scale commercial logging and prolonged anthropogenic disturbances over the past decades, large tropical secondary forests have been

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Conversion of tropical #SecondaryForests into #RubberPlantations reduces network complexity and diversity of soil #BacterialCommunity

#SoilPhysicochemicalProperties | #SoilBacterialCommunityComposition

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Just going to put this here again...

#CultureOfCarsKills #Capitalism #Inequity #RubberPlantations #RouteToTheEndofTheRoad #MetalsMining #EVsAreNotAnEffinPanacea #LongHaulTrade