Description

Microbial community data consist of abundances of 985 bacteria species measured at 56 soil sample sites from three regions, Kilpisjarvi (Finland), Ny-Alesund (Norway), and Mayrhofen (Austria). In addition to bacteria counts, three continuous environmental variables (pH, available phosphorous and soil organic matter) were measured from each soil sample.

Usage

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A data frame with abundances of 985 bacteria species measured at 56 soil sample sites

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Environmental variables SOM: soil organic matter, pH: soil pH value and Phosp: available phosphorus and information from the samples, including Region: sampling region (Kilpisjarvi (Finland), Ny-Alesund (Norway), and Mayrhofen (Austria).), Site: sampling site and Soiltype: soil sample type (top soil (T) or bottom soil (B))

References

Kumar, M., Brader, G., Sessitsch, A., Mäki, A., van Elsas, J.D., and Nissinen, R. (2017). Plants Assemble Species Specific Bacterial Communities from Common Core Taxa in Three Arcto-Alpine Climate Zones. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8:12.

Niku, J., Warton, D. I., Hui, F. K. C., and Taskinen, S. (2017). Generalized linear latent variable models for multivariate count and biomass data in ecology. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 22:498-522.