Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany

Katja Felsmann; Mathias Baudis; Katharina Gimbel; Zachary E. Kayler; Ruth Ellerbrock; Helge Bruehlheide; Johannes Bruckhoff; Erik Welk; Heike Puhlmann; Markus Weiler; Arthur Gessler; Andreas Ulrich

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122539

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Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany

Katja Felsmann,

Affiliation Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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Mathias Baudis,

Affiliation Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Katharina Gimbel,

Affiliation Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Zachary E. Kayler,

Affiliation Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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Ruth Ellerbrock,

Affiliation Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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Helge Bruehlheide,

Affiliation Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Johannes Bruckhoff,

Affiliation Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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Erik Welk,

Affiliation Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Heike Puhlmann,

Affiliations Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Department of Soils and Environment, Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany
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Markus Weiler,

Affiliation Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Arthur Gessler,

Affiliations Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Andreas Ulrich

* E-mail: aulrich@zalf.de

Affiliation Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany

Katja Felsmann,
Mathias Baudis,
Katharina Gimbel,
Zachary E. Kayler,
Ruth Ellerbrock,
Helge Bruehlheide,
Johannes Bruckhoff,
Erik Welk,
Heike Puhlmann,
Markus Weiler

Published: April 14, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122539

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