Variations in Soil Microbial Communities and Residues Along an Altitude Gradient on the Northern Slope of Changbai Mountain, China

• Bin Zhang,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P. R. China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

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• Chao Liang,

  Affiliation Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Hongbo He ,

  * E-mail: hehongbo@iae.ac.cn (HH); xdzhang@iae.ac.cn (XZ)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P. R. China

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• Xudong Zhang

  * E-mail: hehongbo@iae.ac.cn (HH); xdzhang@iae.ac.cn (XZ)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, P. R. China, National Field Observation and Research Station of Shenyang Agroecosystems, Shenyang, P. R. China

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