Article type: Letter
Running title: Root links to litter and soil in the tropics
Article title: Plant roots link stronger with microorganisms in
leaf litter rather than soil across tropical land-use systems
Keywords: roots; litter; land use; deforestation; microbial
biomass; basal resources; trenching
Numbers: 150 words in the abstract; 5303 words in the main
text; 90 references; 5 figures and 10 appendixes (1 supplementary
information, 3 supplementary figures and 6 supplementary tables)