As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously 'profound ignorance'

Alarms about the declining diversity of plants and animals raise a related concern with equally profound implications: Is the variety of microbial life, including viruses, changing too? And if so, in which direction and how fast?

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