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Adam Frew
frewecologist.bsky.social
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We composited soil cores and lost 49 AM fungal taxa doing it.
Sequencing individual subsamples found them. The ones that vanish are rare, patchy, and phylogenetically clustered.
Also drying vs freezing made no difference really.
Sample at the scale your question lives at.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2026.110250
2026-07-16T02:48:07.571Z