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We studied change in soil elements after planting trees with varying compositions• Direction and strength of changes depended strongly on context• The composition effect was most visible at loamy soil with little soil disturbance This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Ecosystems.

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Little effect of tree species richness on within-and between-plot variability in soil chemical properties in a young plantation forest.

Species identity and distance to the tree affect topsoil chemistry more than mixture effects in mature forest Els Dhiedt a,1