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