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Front. Microbiol., 29 November 2016
Sec. Terrestrial Microbiology

Corrigendum: Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

\r\nSaskia Rughft&#x;Saskia Rughöft1Martina Herrmann,Martina Herrmann1,2Cassandre S. LazarCassandre S. Lazar1Simone Cesarz,Simone Cesarz2,3Shaun R. LevickShaun R. Levick4Susan E. TrumboreSusan E. Trumbore4Kirsten Küsel,*Kirsten Küsel1,2*
  • 1Chair of Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
  • 2German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  • 3Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
  • 4Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

A corrigendum on
Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa

by Rughöft, S., Herrmann, M., Lazar, C. S., Cesarz, S., Levick, S. R., Trumbore, S. E. et al. (2016). Front. Microbiol. 7:1638. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01638

In the original article, we neglected to acknowledge the CRC 1076 “AquaDiva” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), who provided financial support for this project. The authors apologize for this oversight. This error does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.

Funding

MiSeq Illumina amplicon sequencing was financially supported by the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118). ST acknowledges the AW Mellon foundation for their support through grant #41200677. This work was financially supported by the CRC 1076 AquaDiva, funded by the German Research Foundation.

Conflict of Interest Statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Keywords: savanna soils, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, amoA, granitic bedrock, basaltic bedrock

Citation: Rughöft S, Herrmann M, Lazar CS, Cesarz S, Levick SR, Trumbore SE and Küsel K (2016) Corrigendum: Community Composition and Abundance of Bacterial, Archaeal, and Nitrifying Populations in Savanna Soils on Contrasting Bedrock Material in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Front. Microbiol. 7:1954. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01954

Received: 11 November 2016; Accepted: 21 November 2016;
Published: 29 November 2016.

Edited and reviewed by: Paul Bodelier, Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie, Netherlands

Copyright © 2016 Rughöft, Herrmann, Lazar, Cesarz, Levick, Trumbore and Küsel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Kirsten Küsel, kirsten.kuesel@uni-jena.de

Present Address: Saskia Rughöft, Geomicrobiology, Center for Applied Geosciences, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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