Vegetation characteristics control local sediment and nutrient retention on but not underneath vegetation in floodplain meadows

• Lena Kretz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: lena.kretz@uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliations Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Life science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-4421

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• Elisabeth Bondar-Kunze,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, WasserCluster Lunz, Lunz am See, Austria

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• Thomas Hein,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Hydrobiology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, WasserCluster Lunz, Lunz am See, Austria

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• Ronny Richter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Life science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Institute for Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

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• Christiane Schulz-Zunkel,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

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• Carolin Seele-Dilbat,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Life science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

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• Fons van der Plas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Michael Vieweg,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany

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• Christian Wirth

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

  Affiliations Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Life science, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

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