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Plant-soil feedbacks after severe tornado damage: Dance Your PhD 2014 Grand Prize Winner! Uma Nagendra - Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia. Many of the patterns we see in forests around the world are caused by the relationships that plants have with organisms in the soil. Some very diverse forests can only support as many different tree species as they do because soil-borne diseases prevent any one species from taking over. But what happens when a tornado comes along?