Environmental predictors impact microbial-based postmortem interval (PMI) estimation models within human decomposition soils

• Allison R. Mason,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-1592

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• Hayden S. McKee-Zech,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5477-8289

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• Dawnie W. Steadman,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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• Jennifer M. DeBruyn

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

  * E-mail: jdebruyn@utk.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2993-4144

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