The influence of human exploration on the microbial community structure and ammonia oxidizing potential of the Su Bentu limestone cave in Sardinia, Italy

• Stefan Leuko ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: stefan.leuko@dlr.de

  Affiliation German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology Department, Research Group 'Astrobiology', Linder Höhe, Cologne (Köln), Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0423-0896

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• Kaisa Koskinen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical University of Graz, Section of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, BioTechMed, Krenngasse, Graz, Austria

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• Laura Sanna,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Biometeorology, National Research Council of Italy, Sassari, Italy

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• Ilenia M. D’Angeli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Italian Institute of Speleology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Jo De Waele,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Italian Institute of Speleology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Paolo Marcia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze della Natura e del Territorio, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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• Christine Moissl-Eichinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical University of Graz, Section of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, BioTechMed, Krenngasse, Graz, Austria

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• Petra Rettberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Radiation Biology Department, Research Group 'Astrobiology', Linder Höhe, Cologne (Köln), Germany

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