TEEMING WITH LIFE, SOILS ARE HOME TO A VAST ARRAY OF BIODIVERSITY
FIGURE 7.5 Many thousands of bacterial species can be identified from a single gram of soil. Shown here are just a few of the vast number of life forms that inhabit soils.
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