Metabarcoding data reveal vertical multi-taxa variation in topsoil communities during the colonization of deglaciated forelands
Running title: Multi-taxa variation of topsoil communities
Alessia Guerrieri¹, Alexis Carteron¹,*, Aurélie Bonin1,2, Silvio Marta, Roberto Ambrosini¹, Marco Caccianiga¹, Isabel Cantera¹, Chiara Compostella3, Guglielmina Diolaiuti¹, Diego Fontaneto4, Ludovic Gielly5, Fabrizio Gili1, Mauro Gobbi6, Jerome Poulenard7, Pierre Taberlet5,8, Andrea Zerboni3, Wilfried Thuiller5, Gentile Francesco Ficetola¹,5
Affiliations:
¹Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy
2Argaly, Bâtiment CleanSpace, 354 Voie Magellan, 73800 Sainte-Hélène-du-Lac, France
3Department of Earth Sciences “A. Desio”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milano, Italy
4CNR - Water Research Institute, Largo V. Tonolli 50, 28922, Verbania, Italy
5Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, LECA, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, F-38000, Grenoble, France
7Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, EDYTEM, F-73000 Chambéry
8UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Museum, Tromsø, Norway.
*Correspondence author. Email: alexis.carteron@unimi.it