edaphic

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Under less stressful edaphic conditions, these same neighbors may be competitors.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to soil, especially as it affects living organisms.
  2. adjective Influenced by the soil rather than by the climate.

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  • Under less stressful edaphic conditions, these same neighbors may be competitors. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Our results suggest that microbial biogeography is controlled primarily by edaphic variables and differs fundamentally from the biogeography of "macro" organisms. bci betadiversity climatechange coevolution communityecology comparativemethods competition diversity foraging metagenomics methods microbial microbiome phenology phylodiversity phylogenetics pyrosequencing roots software CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. From Greek edaphos, ground, soil; see sed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Greek ἒδαφος, base, ground, + -ic.
 

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