Correspondence: Reply to 'Analytical flaws in a continental-scale forest soil microbial diversity study'

Affiliations

• ¹ State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
• ² Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
• ³ Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, USA.
• ⁴ CAS Key Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
• ⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
• ⁶ The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA.
• ⁷ EEB Graduate Program, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
• ⁸ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa 0843-03092, Republic of Panama.
• ⁹ Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.