Coupling between Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) and Soil Structure in Semiarid Resource Islands
Jeroen Hendricus Theodoor Zethof1, Cordula Vogel1, Antje Bettermann2, Lucas Cammeraat3, Albert Solé-Benet4, Roberto Lázaro-Suau4, Lourdes Luna-Ramos4, Tim Schacherl1, Stephan Krüger1 and Karsten Kalbitz1, (1)TU Dresden, Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, Dresden, Germany, (2)Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut fur Kulturpflanze, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Braunschweig, Germany, (3)University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (CSIC), Almeria, Spain