I love it too Mike! 🧡

Interesting!! I respect that you statisticians love boxplots, but data structure/assumption checking is not (usually) part of my final ecology/biology story. Usually when i see boxplots, people have no clue what the iqrs or medians represent in the context of the experimental question 🤷🏼‍♀️

They give the wrong impression *if* the mean misrepresents the data due to model assumptions not being met.

sometimes simple is good!!

because...you love it??

tricky question...I'd say exudation is a metabolic process, whereas rhizodeposition is more like an ecosystem-level phenomenon of total OM contributed by the roots to the soil. Eg. super labile exudates will be respired asap by microbes, and rhizodeposits can be "passive" like root necromass.

I like to use a silva-based bayesian classifer, works great

Hi! I would love to be added. I study mycorrhizal phenology and controls on N/P cycling!!