Early exposure to UV radiation overshadowed by precipitation and litter quality as drivers of decomposition in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

• Daniel B. Hewins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel B. Hewins, Hanna Lee

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

  Affiliation Biology Department, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Hanna Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel B. Hewins, Hanna Lee

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

  * E-mail: hale@norceresearch.no

  Affiliation NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2003-4377

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• Paul W. Barnes,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Nathan G. McDowell,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

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• William T. Pockman,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Thom Rahn,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Heather L. Throop

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

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