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Table S1. The fungi biomarker used in PLFA analysis by soil scientists. There are 66 authors who
used 18:2ω6 as fungi biomarker, the other 18 authors used 18:2ω6, 18:1ω9 (sometimes 18:3ω3, 6,
9) as fungi biomarker.
Fungi Biomarker
Authors
Ecosystem Type
18:2ω6
Andersen et al. 2010
Bååth & Anderson 2003
Boyle et al. 2008
Brant et al. 2006a,b
Campbell et al. 2008
Carney et al. 2007
Certini et al. 2004
Demoling et al. 2008
Dong et al. 2008
Feng et al. 2010
Frey et al. 2006
Fritze et al. 2000a,b
Frostegård & Bååth 1996
Grayston & Prescott 2005
Hamer et al. 2009
Joner et al. 2005
Kiikkila et al. 2001
Leckie et al. 2004
Li et al. 2006
Merilä et al. 2002
Moore-Kucera & Dick 2008
Morsky et al. 2008
Mutabaruka et al. 2007
Niwa et al. 2008
Pennanen et al. 1998,1999
Perkiömäki et al. 2003
Pietikäinen et al. 2007
Priha et al. 2001
Royer-Tardif et al. 2010
Wang et al. 2008
Waldrop et al. 2000
Forest
Bossio & Scow 1998
Buyer et al. 2010
Drenovsky et al. 2004
Enami et al. 2001
Esperschütz et al. 2007
Agro-ecosystem
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Gattinger et al. 2002
González-Chávez et al. 2010
Hammesfahr et al. 2008
Hedlund 2002
Ibekwe et al. 2002
Kandeler et al. 1998, 2000
Kong et al. 2008a, b
Liu et al. 2009
Marschner et al. 2003
Spedding et al. 2004
Zelles et al. 1995
Zhong et al. 2009
Zornoza et al. 2009
Bardgett et al. 1996,2001
Bardgett & McAlister 1999
Butler et al. 2003
Bezemer et al. 2006
Björk et al. 2008
Chen et al. 2008
Ebersberger et al. 2004
Gordon et al. 2008
Hossain et al. 2007
Ingram et al. 2008
Kandeler et al. 1998, 2000
Macdonald et al. 2006
Manning et al. 2008
Rinnan & Bååth 2009
Potthast et al. 2010
Zeller et al. 2001
Grassland
Antizar-Ladislao et al. 2008
Tornberg et al. 2003
Contaminated soil
Gómez-Brandón et al. 2010
Kaiser et al. 20101a, b
Waldrop & Firestone 2006
Högberg et al. 2007
Forest
Allison et al. 2005
Grassland
Mckinley et al 2005
Zhang et al. 2009
Prairie
16:1ω5
18:1ω9
18:2ω6
18:3ω3, 6
Unger et al. 2009
Agroforestry
Potthoff et al. 2006
grassland
Joergensen et al. 2005, 2008
Review
18:1ω9
Asuming-Brempong
Agro-ecosystem
18:2ω6
18:1ω9
et
al.
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18:2ω6, 9
18:3ω3, 6, 9
18:2ω6
18:3ω3, 6, 9
2008
Liang et al. 2008
Steenwerth et al. 2003
Kourtev et al. 2002
Forest, Grassland
Hill et al. 2000
Vestal & White 1989
Review
Guo & Wang 2009
Pastures
Hinojosa et al. 2005
Forest
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composition and litter decomposition in two Eucalyptus plantations in South China