Archaeal and Fungal Community Assembly in Chinese Coastal Salt Marshes

Coastal China salt marsh sediments contain data on archaeal and fungal community composition, assembly mechanisms, and niche characteristics across latitudinal and seasonal gradients. The dataset, created by Kai Li Lu, was last updated in March 2026 and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. It provides a comparative analysis of ecological strategies between microbial domains.

Use Cases

• Compare community composition between archaea and fungi across latitudinal gradients to identify domain-specific environmental responses.
• Analyze assembly mechanisms data to quantify the relative influence of deterministic versus stochastic processes for each microbial group.
• Model niche characteristics to test the hypothesis of fungal specialization versus archaeal generalist strategies in salt marsh sediments.
• Correlate spatiotemporal environmental rhythm data with community stability metrics for archaea and fungi.

Strengths

• Dataset covers a broad latitudinal gradient and seasonal scales along the coast of China.
• Provides a direct comparative framework for two distinct microbial domains: Archaea and Fungi.
• Explicitly investigates multiple analytical dimensions: community composition, assembly mechanisms, and niche characteristics.

Limitations

• Small file size (44.1 KB) suggests a limited scope, likely containing summary or processed results rather than raw sequence data.
• Unknown row and column counts prevent assessment of dataset scale and feature richness for machine learning.
• Findings are specific to coastal salt marsh ecosystems, limiting generalizability to other habitats.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Kaiqi Lu.

Collection Method

Systematic investigation of sediment microbial communities across latitudinal and seasonal scales.

Time Range

Seasonal scales, specific years unknown.

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Coastal salt marshes across a latitudinal gradient in China.