Influence of Different Forest System Management Practices on Leaf Litter Decomposition Rates, Nutrient Dynamics and the Activity of Ligninolytic Enzymes: A Case Study from Central European Forests

• Witoon Purahong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Witoon Purahong, Danuta Kapturska, Marek J. Pecyna

  * E-mail: witoon.purahong@ufz.de

  Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, Chair for Soil Science, Technical University of Munich, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Danuta Kapturska ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Witoon Purahong, Danuta Kapturska, Marek J. Pecyna

  Affiliations UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Halle (Saale), Germany, Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences, International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau, Germany

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• Marek J. Pecyna ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Witoon Purahong, Danuta Kapturska, Marek J. Pecyna

  Affiliation Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences, International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau, Germany

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• Elke Schulz,

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

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• Michael Schloter,

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

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• François Buscot,

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

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• Martin Hofrichter,

  Affiliation Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences, International Institute Zittau, Technische Universität Dresden, Zittau, Germany

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• Dirk Krüger

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

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