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From: RNA-viromics reveals diverse communities of soil RNA viruses with the potential to affect grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels

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Soil samples were taken along an altitudinal primary productivity gradient in North Wales, UK (a). Sampling sites included upland peatland, (*) three forms of grassland under different management regimes (unimproved upland, semi-improved and improved lowland grassland) and unmanaged coastal grassland (b - made using Google Earth Pro). Elevation varied by 400 m along the transect (c). Site co-ordinates and soil descriptions can be found in Supplementary Table 1. Images of soils from each site can be seen in (d) from left to right: upland peatland, upland grassland, semi-improved grassland, lowland grassland and coastal grassland. An Upset plot of the distribution of identified viral contigs (e) demonstrates how whilst the majority of viral contigs are found solely at each site, the managed grassland sites share more viral contigs in common than with the upland peat or coastal grassland sites, with the coastal grassland site being almost completely unique.

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