Divergent microbial communities in groundwater and overlying soils exhibit functional redundancy for plant-polysaccharide degradation

• Martin Taubert ,

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

  * E-mail: martin.taubert@uni-jena.de

  Affiliation Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9498-0841

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• Jan Stähly,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany

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• Steffen Kolb,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, Microbial Biogeochemistry, RA Landscape Processes, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

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• Kirsten Küsel

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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