Effects of wetting frequency and afforestation on carbon, nitrogen and the microbial community in soil

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Program (LP0990038), Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (CMA), North Central CMA, Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, EPA Victoria and Kilter Pty. Ltd. T.R.C. (FT120100463), J.B. (FT110100602) and P.J.B. (FT120100715) were supported by Australian Research Council Future Fellowships. M.H. thanks the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for additional funding for fieldwork and laboratory analysis. We thank Mr Scott McDonald for his assistance in the field and the landholders for access to their properties. We thank Dr Jessica Drake for reviewing an early draft of the manuscript, Dr Jim Thomson for advice on statistical analysis and Mr Bodo Winter for his tutorial on mixed effect modelling using R (Winter, 2013).