Ectomycorrhizal Community and Soil Carbon Data for Landscape-Scale Analysis

A dataset supporting research on soil carbon stocks includes plot-level measurements of soil carbon, environmental covariates, and ectomycorrhizal community metrics. It was created by Robert A. Barber and last updated in May 2026. The archive contains annotated R scripts for data cleaning, statistical analysis, and figure generation.

Use Cases

• Predict soil carbon stocks based on ectomycorrhizal community composition and trait values mentioned in the description.
• Analyze the relationship between fungal diversity and environmental covariates described in the plot data.
• Reproduce statistical analyses and figures from the associated manuscript using the provided R code.
• Explore taxonomic annotations of ectomycorrhizal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) via interactive Krona charts.

Strengths

• Includes a metadata sheet describing all variables, units, and definitions.
• Contains three structured data sheets: Metadata, Plot Data, and an OTU Table.
• Provides the full R codebase for reproducing analyses and figures.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely collected from field plots for the associated research study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 15:12:42; freshness should be verified.