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Auditing data resolves systemic errors in databases and confirms mycorrhizal trait consistency for most genera and families of flowering plants
Nearly 150 years of research has accumulated large amounts of data on mycorrhizal association types in plants. However, this important resource includes unreliable allocated traits for some species. An audit of six commonly used data sources revealed a high degree of consistency in the mycorrhizal s...
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