Plant trait diversity buffers soil moisture dynamics on coastal dikes during drought periods

• Jan-Michael Schönebeck ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan-Michael Schönebeck, Dorothea Bunzel, Maike Paul, Torsten Schlurmann

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

  * E-mail: schoenebeck@lufi.uni-hannover.de

  Affiliation Ludwig Franzius Institute of Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7588-3907

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• Dorothea Bunzel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan-Michael Schönebeck, Dorothea Bunzel, Maike Paul, Torsten Schlurmann

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5157-5221

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• Maike Paul ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan-Michael Schönebeck, Dorothea Bunzel, Maike Paul, Torsten Schlurmann

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

  Affiliation Ludwig Franzius Institute of Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

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• Torsten Schlurmann

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan-Michael Schönebeck, Dorothea Bunzel, Maike Paul, Torsten Schlurmann

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

  Affiliation Ludwig Franzius Institute of Hydraulic, Estuarine and Coastal Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4691-7629

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