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Soils are spatially heterogeneous environments, and the distribution of microorganisms and carbon is organized at the scale of millimeters in soil aggregates. The physio-chemical environment within macroaggregates and microaggregates differ, which may lead to the selection of mi…

Many environments are either spatially or temporally stochastic, meaning organisms have had to develop evolutionary progeny risk-spreading strategies to deal with such uncertainty. One such evolutionary strategy is skip oviposition (laying eggs in more than one site) strategies,…