Soil Ecosystem Data from Tobacco Pot Experiment with Earthworm and Bacillus Inoculation

A dataset from a controlled pot experiment investigating the individual and combined effects of earthworm and Bacillus spp. inoculation on soil properties and microbial communities in a tobacco system. The data includes measurements for four treatments: control, earthworm alone, Bacillus alone, and co-inoculation. It was published by Yuanye Xiao on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license and last updated on 2026-04-15.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil ecosystem multifunctionality based on measured physicochemical properties like alkaline-hydrolyzable nitrogen and catalase activity.
• Analyzing shifts in soil microbial community β-diversity and relative abundance of phyla like Actinobacteriota and Proteobacteria.
• Investigating the complexity of bacterial and fungal co-occurrence networks under different biotic treatments.
• Identifying key drivers of soil health using random forest analysis on variables like total nitrogen and available phosphorus.

Strengths

• Data is from a controlled experimental design with four distinct treatment groups (CK, E, B, EB).
• Includes measurements for multiple soil ecosystem functions (e.g., nutrient content, enzyme activity) and microbial community metrics.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (428.7 KB), indicating a limited scope likely confined to the described pot experiment.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yuanye Xiao.

Collection Method

Data collected from a tobacco pot experiment with four inoculation treatments.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 05:43:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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