Ester Linked Fatty Acid (ELFA) method should be used with caution for interpretating soil microbial communities and their relationships with environmental variables in forest soils

• Wenjuan Yu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States of America

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• Huanhuan Gao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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• Hongzhang Kang

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

  * E-mail: kanghz@sjtu.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-3588

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