About the Authors

Chakriya Sansupa

Contributed equally to this work with: Chakriya Sansupa, Witoon Purahong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Graduate School, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany

Witoon Purahong

Contributed equally to this work with: Chakriya Sansupa, Witoon Purahong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

terd.dis@gmail.com (TD); witoon.purahong@ufz.de (WP)

Affiliation Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany

Tesfaye Wubet

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Pimonrat Tiansawat

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Environmental Science Research Centre and Forest Restoration Research Unit, Biology Department, Science Faculty, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Wasu Pathom-Aree

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Neung Teaumroong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biotechnology, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

Panuwan Chantawannakul

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

François Buscot

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Soil Ecology, UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Stephen Elliott

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ TD and SE are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Environmental Science Research Centre and Forest Restoration Research Unit, Biology Department, Science Faculty, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Terd Disayathanoowat

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

terd.dis@gmail.com (TD); witoon.purahong@ufz.de (WP)

‡ TD and SE are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Research Center in Bioresources for Agriculture, Industry and Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests. The Siam Cement (Lampang) Co., Ltd. allowed access to the experimental sites and funded field work and lab analyses. However, the company played no role in experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, drafting the manuscript and decision to submit the work for publication. None of the authors were paid by the company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.