Forest Age and Plant Species Composition Determine the Soil Fungal Community Composition in a Chinese Subtropical Forest

• Yu Ting Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ting Wu, Tesfaye Wubet

  Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, Chair of Soil Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Tesfaye Wubet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Ting Wu, Tesfaye Wubet

  * E-mail: tesfaye.wubet@ufz.de

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

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• Stefan Trogisch,

  Affiliations Faculty of Biology, Department of Geobotany, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

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• Sabine Both,

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

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• Thomas Scholten,

  Affiliation Chair of Physical Geography and Soil Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Helge Bruelheide,

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany

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• François Buscot

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

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