About the Authors

Pu Shen

Affiliations Soil Biology and Molecular Ecology Group, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, National Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, P. R. China

Daniel Vaughan Murphy

Affiliation Soil Biology and Molecular Ecology Group, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Suman J. George

Affiliation Soil Biology and Molecular Ecology Group, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Hazel Lapis-Gaza

Affiliation Soil Biology and Molecular Ecology Group, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Minggang Xu

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, P. R. China

Deirdre Bridget Gleeson

deirdre.gleeson@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation Soil Biology and Molecular Ecology Group, School of Earth and Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PS DVM SG MX DBG. Data curation: PS SG HL-G DBG. Formal analysis: PS DVM SG HL-G DBG. Funding acquisition: PS DVM DBG. Investigation: PS SG HL-G DBG. Methodology: PS DVM SG HL-G DBG. Project administration: DVM DBG. Resources: DVM SG MX DBG. Software: PS SG DBG. Supervision: DVM SG MX DBG. Validation: PS SG DBG. Visualization: PS SG DBG. Writing – original draft: PS DVM DBG. Writing – review & editing: PS DVM SG HL-G MX DBG.