Microbial communities can predict the ecological condition of headwater streams

• Robert H. Hilderbrand ,

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

  * E-mail: rhilderbrand@umces.edu

  Affiliation Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0923-7699

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• Stephen R. Keller,

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

  Current address: Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America

  Affiliation Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States of America

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• Sarah M. Laperriere,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Alyson E. Santoro,

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

  Affiliations Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

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• Jason Cessna,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States of America

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• Regina Trott

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States of America

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