Soil-borne fungi influence seed germination and mortality, with implications for coexistence of desert winter annual plants

• Yue M. Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue M. Li, Justin P. Shaffer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liyue@email.arizona.edu

  Affiliations School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2564-6129

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• Justin P. Shaffer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yue M. Li, Justin P. Shaffer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  Affiliation School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9371-6336

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• Brenna Hall,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Hongseok Ko

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4806-3989

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