Data and R code from a study investigating the effects of nutrient enrichment on soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The dataset, authored by Zhengkun Hu and last updated on April 27, 2026, includes parameters for mineral nutrients, microbial and nematode diversity, biomass, and soil decomposition potentials. It is available in multiple file formats including CSV and XLSX.
Use Cases
- Modeling relationships between nutrient levels and soil microbial diversity based on parameters like MineralN and Bacterialdiversity.
- Analyzing soil multifunctionality thresholds (EMF3, EMF5, EMF7) in response to environmental variables.
- Investigating correlations between soil organism biomass (e.g., Bacterialbiomass, Fungalbiomass) and degradation processes like lignindegradation.
- Classifying soil health based on aggregate stability and parasite resistance metrics.
Strengths
- Includes over 40 distinct measured parameters covering nutrient levels, organism diversity, biomass, and functional processes.
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.
- Provides accompanying R code for analysis, which may aid reproducibility.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for statistical modeling.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the provided abbreviation list after download.
- The dataset is small in scale at 364.0 KB, suggesting a limited observational scope.
Provenance
- Source
- figshare, authored by Zhengkun Hu.
- Collection Method
- Likely contains experimental or observational data from a nutrient enrichment study.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04 27 18:12:16; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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