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Realized niche breadth is generally expected to be smaller than fundamental niche breadth. For soil microorganisms, this is due in part to competition from co‐occurring microbes, so removing competitors should allow for expanded use of resource and habitats (i.e. ecological release).
We hypothesized that conditioning bacterial isolates to biotically cleared soils would allow for niche breadth...