Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions After Deforestation and Afforestation

19 ecological functions were measured alongside sequencing of soil biota, including bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses, protists, and invertebrates, as well as metagenomes. The dataset, authored by Zhi Yu, is available in R and XLSX formats and was last updated on April 23, 2026. It is a 4.1 MB dataset shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Modeling relationships between soil biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality based on the 19 measured functions.
• Analyzing community composition shifts across bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses, protists, and invertebrates following land-use change.
• Training models to predict ecological outcomes of deforestation and subsequent afforestation based on soil metagenomic data.

Strengths

• Includes measurements of 19 distinct ecological functions, providing a multi-faceted view of ecosystem performance.
• Sequencing data covers a broad range of soil biota, including six major groups (bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses, protists, invertebrates) and metagenomes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling tasks.
• The 4.1 MB size suggests a relatively small dataset, potentially limiting statistical power for complex analyses.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Direct measurement and sequencing of soil samples, as described.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 20:03:39; freshness should be verified.