Tardigrade and Rotifer Community Data from Cryptogam Substrates in Ukrainian Carpathians

Yelyzaveta Matsko's dataset accompanies a 2026 study on how cryptogam substrates shape microfauna diversity. It includes raw and processed materials from high-throughput COI sequencing of tardigrades and rotifers in montane forests. The resources support replication of analyses on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and compositional diversity.

Use Cases

• Assess substrate effects on microfauna diversity based on sample metadata from soil, tree base, and tree trunk.
• Analyze community structure and assembly mechanisms based on OTU tables and Maximum Clade Credibility trees.
• Replicate statistical tests of microhabitat filtering using the provided R analysis scripts and sample data.
• Visualize OTU occurrence patterns across samples using the provided heatmaps for tardigrades and rotifers.

Strengths

• Includes detailed sample metadata for all metabarcoding-processed cryptogam samples.
• Provides a full bioinformatic pipeline for read processing and OTU generation.
• Contains OTU tables, sample data for statistical analyses, and phylogenetic trees in Newick format.
• Dataset size is 1.7 MB, making it manageable for download and local analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Geographic coverage is limited to montane forests of the Ukrainian Carpathians.

Provenance

Source

figshare, associated with the paper 'Does the substrate on which cryptogamic vegetation grow matter for limno-terrestrial microfauna?'

Collection Method

Microfauna communities were profiled using high-throughput sequencing of the COI marker from cryptogam samples.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 07:11:12; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Montane forests of the Ukrainian Carpathians.