Author Correction: Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls

In the originally published version of this Article, financial support was not fully acknowledged. The PDF and HTML versions of the Article have now been corrected to include support from the NSF Long-term Ecological Research Program (DEB 1637653) at the Kellogg Biological Station and from Michigan State University AgBioResearch.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Nature Communications

• Publication date

  2018-09-24

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41467-018-06427-3PMID 30250196PMCID 6155362
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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