Soil Microbial Communities Under Three Long-Term Monoculture Systems in Northeast China

Northeast China soil microbial data from a study comparing corn, alfalfa, and sheepgrass monocultures. The dataset likely contains diversity indices, taxonomic composition, and network metrics for bacterial and fungal communities. It was authored by Ruifen Zhu and uploaded to figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Compare microbial diversity and composition based on crop type (annual vs perennial) and fertilizer use.
• Analyze co-occurrence network complexity based on system-specific patterns described.
• Study inter-domain microbial associations based on the higher number of edges reported in sheepgrass.
• Investigate the ratio of positive to negative network edges based on the reported differences between systems.

Strengths

• Focuses on three distinct agricultural systems (corn, alfalfa, sheepgrass) allowing for comparative analysis.
• Includes both bacterial and fungal community data, enabling inter-domain study.
• Provides co-occurrence network metrics, such as node and edge counts and positive-to-negative link ratios.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small (626.8 KB), suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely derived from field sampling and laboratory analysis of soil microbial communities.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 21:33:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northeast China