This preprint has now been peer-reviewed and published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology:

Tommi Välikangas, Hannu Fritze, Juha-Matti Pitkänen, Krista Peltoniemi, Eeva Järvi-Laturi, Torben R Christensen, Maria Väisänen, Juho Lämsä, Riku Paavola, Jenni Hultman, Environmental variation structures northern peatland soil microbiome composition and function in a reindeer herding area exclosure experiment, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Volume 102, Issue 8, August 2026, fiag072, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiag072