The composition of bacterial communities associated with plastic biofilms differs between different polymers and stages of biofilm succession

• Maria Pinto ,

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

  * E-mail: maria.pinto@univie.ac.at

  Affiliations Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Center of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Research Platform ‘Plastics in the Environment and Society’, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3232-2595

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• Teresa M. Langer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Center of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Thorsten Hüffer,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Platform ‘Plastics in the Environment and Society’, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Environmental Geosciences, Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5639-8789

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• Thilo Hofmann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Platform ‘Plastics in the Environment and Society’, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Department of Environmental Geosciences, Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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• Gerhard J. Herndl

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

  Affiliations Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Center of Functional Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Research Platform ‘Plastics in the Environment and Society’, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, NIOZ, Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Utrecht University, Den Burg, The Netherlands

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