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In June 2009 a badger carcass was exposed on the former Soviet military training area of Lieberose in Brandenburg, Germany. Two months later, soil samples were taken on the former carcass site by a cross-shaped sampling design including 61 samples. Parameters tested were pH, water content, organic matter content, NO3–, NH4+, PO43– and conductivity. During a second sampling campaign in June 2010, the same parameters were tested again as well as collembolans. One year after decomposition, NO3– and PO43– was still significantly increased, whereas NH4+, conductivity and water showed a significant increase only in the first sampling campaign. Organic matter content and pH showed no significant changes. 7,606 collembolan individuals belonging to 13 species were extracted. 94.6% were.