Maria Faticov
@mariafaticov.bsky.social
Ecologist, #microbial enthusiast 🧫🍄 Postdoc at
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
#standwithukraine 🇺🇦
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Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
#standwithukraine 🇺🇦
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FdZxWSEAAAAJ&hl=en
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Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate ...
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🎉I am very happy to share that I've been awarded the FORMAS Early Career Grant, a 4-year research project starting in 2026! formas.se/en/start-pag...
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
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In his new book ‘The Stuff that Stuff is Made of’, Jonathan Drori encourages young readers to be curious about our relationship with plants. 🏡🌍
🧪 Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-made-jonathan-drori-cbe-qi0ne/?trackingId=2hPjjPZCTrCRUoGuV7IOTQ%3D%3D
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The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of
My new book, just published in North America, UK/Ireland and Australasia, is an attempt to inspire young readers to enjoy and be curious about our relationships with plants. Having had such a sustained and positive reaction to Around the World in 80 Trees and Around the World in 80 Plants, I wanted
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November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In his new book ‘The Stuff that Stuff is Made of’, Jonathan Drori encourages young readers to be curious about our relationship with plants. 🏡🌍
🧪 Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-made-jonathan-drori-cbe-qi0ne/?trackingId=2hPjjPZCTrCRUoGuV7IOTQ%3D%3D
🧪 Learn more: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stuff-made-jonathan-drori-cbe-qi0ne/?trackingId=2hPjjPZCTrCRUoGuV7IOTQ%3D%3D
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Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature
Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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⚡️Video shows Russian drone killing civilians with white flag, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation.
Russian troops struck two unarmed civilians with an FPV drone near the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district, according to video footage provided by Ukraine's 77th Airmobile Brigade.
Russian troops struck two unarmed civilians with an FPV drone near the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district, according to video footage provided by Ukraine's 77th Airmobile Brigade.
Video shows Russian drone killing white flag-waving civilians and dog, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation
Russian troops reportedly struck on Nov. 3 two unarmed civilians with an FPV drone near the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district, according to the video footage provided by Ukraine's 77th ...
kyivindependent.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
⚡️Video shows Russian drone killing civilians with white flag, Ukraine opens war crimes investigation.
Russian troops struck two unarmed civilians with an FPV drone near the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district, according to video footage provided by Ukraine's 77th Airmobile Brigade.
Russian troops struck two unarmed civilians with an FPV drone near the village of Kruhliakivka in the Kupiansk district, according to video footage provided by Ukraine's 77th Airmobile Brigade.
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This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com
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November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com
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GcMeta - a new global resource of metagenome-assembled genomes and their encoded functions with an easy to use, interactive and searchable website academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research
Abstract. The rapid growth of metagenomic sequencing has generated an unprecedented wealth of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), transforming opportuniti
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November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
GcMeta - a new global resource of metagenome-assembled genomes and their encoded functions with an easy to use, interactive and searchable website academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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The evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation
-in American Naturalist by @stuwest.bsky.social, @annadewar.bsky.social, @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social, Laurence Belcher, and @asgriffin.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
-in American Naturalist by @stuwest.bsky.social, @annadewar.bsky.social, @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social, Laurence Belcher, and @asgriffin.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
The evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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November 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation
-in American Naturalist by @stuwest.bsky.social, @annadewar.bsky.social, @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social, Laurence Belcher, and @asgriffin.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
-in American Naturalist by @stuwest.bsky.social, @annadewar.bsky.social, @ryosukeiritani.bsky.social, Laurence Belcher, and @asgriffin.bsky.social
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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📢Available position: Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution. Application deadline: 20 November 2025. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/384592
Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution
We are inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher to support the Laboratory of Fungal Ecology and Evolution, and join our project studying obligatory multitrophic interactions. Project Overvi...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
📢Available position: Postdoc in Fungal Ecology and Evolution. Application deadline: 20 November 2025. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/384592
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Linking nutrient availability and community size to stochasticity in microbial community assembly
@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology by Berenike Bick et al
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@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology by Berenike Bick et al
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Linking nutrient availability and community size to stochasticity in microbial community assembly
Abstract. Both deterministic (e.g. species-environment interactions) and stochastic processes (e.g. random birth and death events) shape communities, but i
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October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Linking nutrient availability and community size to stochasticity in microbial community assembly
@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology by Berenike Bick et al
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@femsjournals.bsky.social Microbiology Ecology by Berenike Bick et al
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#Russia abducts #Ukrainian children to destroy the Ukrainian nation
A podcast episode on how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children, including those who have parents, and changes their identity.
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Support: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
A podcast episode on how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children, including those who have parents, and changes their identity.
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Support: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#Russia abducts #Ukrainian children to destroy the Ukrainian nation
A podcast episode on how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children, including those who have parents, and changes their identity.
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Support: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
A podcast episode on how Russia destroys Ukrainian families, kidnaps Ukrainian children, including those who have parents, and changes their identity.
🔗 ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/...
Support: www.patreon.com/c/ukraineworld.
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What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
7️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi help clean polluted soils by breaking down or immobilizing harmful substances. They act as filters, protecting groundwater & supporting healthier ecosystems.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
7️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi help clean polluted soils by breaking down or immobilizing harmful substances. They act as filters, protecting groundwater & supporting healthier ecosystems.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What Everyone Should Know About Fungi by Age 15
7️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi help clean polluted soils by breaking down or immobilizing harmful substances. They act as filters, protecting groundwater & supporting healthier ecosystems.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
7️⃣ Mycorrhizal fungi help clean polluted soils by breaking down or immobilizing harmful substances. They act as filters, protecting groundwater & supporting healthier ecosystems.
See the top 10 list (buff.ly/33Ov3UD) and follow for new fungal facts.
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We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society
Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
Mycelial Dynamics in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/5) Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form vast underground hyphal networks that support plant life.
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🍄 This study highlighted the role of mycorrhizal symbiosis in mediating the strength of conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) and shaping large-scale patterns of local tree species richness🌲
🖥️ Read the full article: buff.ly/dzuV5Fj
🖥️ Read the full article: buff.ly/dzuV5Fj
October 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🍄 This study highlighted the role of mycorrhizal symbiosis in mediating the strength of conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) and shaping large-scale patterns of local tree species richness🌲
🖥️ Read the full article: buff.ly/dzuV5Fj
🖥️ Read the full article: buff.ly/dzuV5Fj
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Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.
Benchmarking fungal species classification using Oxford nanopore technologies long-read ITS metabarcodes
The gold standard for fungal classification has long been specimen or culture-based, however, many Fungi display simple morphological characteristics,…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Interested in Nanopore long-read ITS fungal metabarcode analysis? Our preprint is now out as journal article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... There is more to do for improving long-read ITS analysis and we hope to advertise a PhD project around this soon.
🎉I am very happy to share that I've been awarded the FORMAS Early Career Grant, a 4-year research project starting in 2026! formas.se/en/start-pag...
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
Career Grant for Early-career Researchers, career age 4–7 years
This call welcomes researchers who have recently received a doctorate or who are at an early stage of their career. You can apply for funding to conduct your own research project, where you formulate ...
formas.se
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🎉I am very happy to share that I've been awarded the FORMAS Early Career Grant, a 4-year research project starting in 2026! formas.se/en/start-pag...
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
This was my 2nd attempt for FORMAS, and I’m so grateful to everyone who supported, encouraged, and mentored me along the way 🙏
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🪵 Bark and wood traits shape deadwood invertebrates differently. Bark traits drives invertebrate diversity only in fine wood in early stage, whereas wood trait effects are longer-lasting, but restricted to coarse wood🌳
🖥️ Find out more: buff.ly/oV00sxK
🖥️ Find out more: buff.ly/oV00sxK
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🪵 Bark and wood traits shape deadwood invertebrates differently. Bark traits drives invertebrate diversity only in fine wood in early stage, whereas wood trait effects are longer-lasting, but restricted to coarse wood🌳
🖥️ Find out more: buff.ly/oV00sxK
🖥️ Find out more: buff.ly/oV00sxK
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🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback
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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation
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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback
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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation
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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation
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Today, an estimated 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain in territories occupied by Russia. Cut off from Ukraine’s education system, they are exposed daily to Russian propaganda, militarization, and pressure to abandon their national identity.
Investigation: After occupying their land, Russia trains Ukrainian children for a lifetime of war
Editor's note: Some names including Oksana's have been changed for security reasons.
Oksana was just 14 when Russia occupied her village, and only 16 when Russian forces began training and indoctrina...
kyivindependent.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today, an estimated 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain in territories occupied by Russia. Cut off from Ukraine’s education system, they are exposed daily to Russian propaganda, militarization, and pressure to abandon their national identity.
For Russia, this war will end only with the destruction of Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting for its very existence.
Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack
Children among six killed in Kyiv after Russian missile and drone attack
Explosions heard across Ukrainian capital after ballistic missile strikes, with further blasts reported in other regions
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
For Russia, this war will end only with the destruction of Ukraine. Ukraine is fighting for its very existence.
Yet another relentless Russian attack on Ukraine …
🔴 Russia launched a massive attack against Ukraine overnight, deploying drones and missiles.
Preliminary reports suggest residential areas and energy infrastructure was targeted.
Preliminary reports suggest residential areas and energy infrastructure was targeted.
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yet another relentless Russian attack on Ukraine …
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The role of #ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil #CarbonCycling under global change
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇
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#LatestIssue #PlantScience
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The role of #ectomycorrhizal functional diversity in mediating soil #CarbonCycling under global change
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
👆 A #Commentary by Christina Kaiser & Mark Anthony on Carrillo et al. 👇
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Abduction of Ukrainian children is one Russia’s most heinous war crimes
Historian and religious scholar Vladyslav Havrylov exposes Russia’s abduction and indoctrination of Ukrainian children — taken from occupied regions, forced to learn Russian language and ideology, and, in many cases, trained for the Russian army.
October 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Abduction of Ukrainian children is one Russia’s most heinous war crimes
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Check my #YouTube interview with @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social from the @balachaudhary.bsky.social Lab at #Dartmouth College, on this wonderful @pnas.org paper, for the @southmycorrhiza vlog / @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social Newsl.
#fungi #soil #mycorrhiza #traits #ecology
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#fungi #soil #mycorrhiza #traits #ecology
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October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Check my #YouTube interview with @smriti-pehim-limbu.bsky.social from the @balachaudhary.bsky.social Lab at #Dartmouth College, on this wonderful @pnas.org paper, for the @southmycorrhiza vlog / @mycorrhizaims.bsky.social Newsl.
#fungi #soil #mycorrhiza #traits #ecology
youtu.be/kNr5yQzMI6Q?...
#fungi #soil #mycorrhiza #traits #ecology
youtu.be/kNr5yQzMI6Q?...
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All botanists know how frustrating the lack of plant emoji diversity is (while mycologists make do with just two mushrooms 🍄🍄🟫). Mammola et al. quantified this disparity compared to biological diversity and built a phylogeny of animal emojis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569
October 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
All botanists know how frustrating the lack of plant emoji diversity is (while mycologists make do with just two mushrooms 🍄🍄🟫). Mammola et al. quantified this disparity compared to biological diversity and built a phylogeny of animal emojis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569
doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108569
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📰Published📰Plant-insect interactions are shaped by plant diversity and the history of plants and soil🌱
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Plant-insect interactions are shaped by plant diversity and the history of plants and soil.
Maximilian Bröcher, Anne Ebeling, Leonardo Bassi, Pamela Medina-van Berkum, Nicole M. van Dam, Nico Eisenhauer, Anna-Maria Madaj, Sybille Unsicker, Alexandra Weigelt, Sebastian T. Meyer This is a p…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📰Published📰Plant-insect interactions are shaped by plant diversity and the history of plants and soil🌱
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