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ASU News Highlight | “The Secret Web of Life in Our Soil”

by Em Gonzalez on December 19, 2023
on left, showing green biocrust growing; on right, showing holes from air bubbles in abiotic crust

Ferran Garcia-Pichel, committee member of the Global Drylands Center, was featured recently in ASU News. Check out the article by clicking through!

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Osvaldo Sala, Julie A. Wrigley Professor at Arizona State University, is a leading ecologist and the Founding Director of the Global Drylands Center and leader of the Sala lab, known for his influential research on global biodiversity and dryland ecosystems. With over 250 publications and 66,000 citations, Osvaldo Sala’s interdisciplinary work spans continents and includes collaborations with diverse scientists, while he also actively leading his lab that focuses on representing the importance of drylands.

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