Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering #KAUST Husband, father, dryland ecologist & runner. PI #Maestrelab
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In our latest paper, just published in @natcomms.nature.com we show that soil conditions, landscape structure & land-use change shape global soil pathogenic fungal diversity. Landscape complexity and crops increase diversity, while grass and tree cover reduce it www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 Microscopic image of hyphae of Aspergillus niger, which causes a disease known as "black mold" on certain fruits and vegetables and is a common contaminant of food. Photo by Y_tambe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Read the paper (#openaccess) here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...