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Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-163-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-8-163-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 8, issue 1
Original research article
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11 Mar 2022
Original research article |  | 11 Mar 2022

Pairing litter decomposition with microbial community structures using the Tea Bag Index (TBI)

Anne Daebeler, Eva Petrová, Elena Kinz, Susanne Grausenburger, Helene Berthold, Taru Sandén, Roey Angel, and the high-school students of biology project groups I, II, and III from 2018–2019

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In this citizen science project, we combined a standardised litter bag method (Tea Bag Index) with microbiome analysis of bacteria and fungi colonising the teabags to gain a holistic understanding of the carbon degradation dynamics in temperate European soils. Our method focuses only on the active part of the soil microbiome. The results show that about one-third of the prokaryotes and one-fifth of the fungal species (ASVs) in the soil were enriched in response to the presence of fresh OM.
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