Soil Environmental Conditions and Microbial Build-Up Mediate the Effect of Plant Diversity on Soil Nitrifying and Denitrifying Enzyme Activities in Temperate Grasslands

• Xavier Le Roux ,

  * E-mail: Xavier.le-roux@univ-lyon1.fr

  Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

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• Bernhard Schmid,

  Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Franck Poly,

  Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

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• Romain L. Barnard,

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Pascal A. Niklaus,

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Nadine Guillaumaud,

  Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

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• Maike Habekost,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Yvonne Oelmann,

  Affiliation Geoecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Laurent Philippot,

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Sols, INRA, Dijon, France

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• Joana Falcao Salles,

  Affiliation Université de Lyon, INRA, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Microbial Ecology Centre (UMR 5557 CNRS, USC 1364 INRA), Villeurbanne, France

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• Michael Schloter,

  Affiliation Research Unit for Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany

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• Sibylle Steinbeiss,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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• Alexandra Weigelt

  Affiliation Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

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