Additional file 1 of Geochemistry and microbiology of tropical serpentine soils in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, a landscape-biogeographical approach
Creators: name: Solano-Arguedas, Agustín F.
name: Boothman, Christopher
name: Newsome, Laura
name: Pattrick, Richard A. D.
name: Arguedas-Quesada, Daniel
name: Robinson, Clare H.
name: Lloyd, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Geographical distribution of the serpentine soils sampled in 10 locations of the SEP within the maps of the geology (a), soil taxonomy (b) and vegetation (c). Fig. S2. Bulk elemental correlations in serpentinized rocks from the SEP for Fe2O3, Mn, Co, Ni, Cr, MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2, all of them analyzed by XRF. Table S1. Linear correlations and probabilities associated for Fe2O3, Mn, Co, Ni, Cr, MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2 found in serpentinized rocks from the SEP, all of them analyzed by XRF. Fig. S3. Bulk mineralogy of rock clasts from the soils (10 cm depth) of the SEP. Fig. S4. Elemental distribution determined on a polished thin section of a serpentinite clast from 10 cm depth (Lowland site MAN), defined by EPMA. Fig. S5. Elemental distribution determined on a polished thin section of a serpentinized peridotite from an outcrop close to Mountain CEI location, defined by EPMA. Fig. S6. Elemental distribution determined on a polished thin section of a serpentinized peridotite from an outcrop close to Lowland BES location, defined by EPMA. Table S2. Water content, total carbon content and pH of the soils sampled. Table S3. Elemental geochemical composition of the lateritic/serpentine soils from 10 locations of the SEP, analyzed by XRF majors (%) and traces (ppm). Fig. S7. Bulk elemental correlations in the serpentine soils from the SEP for Fe2O3, Mn, Co, Ni, Cr, MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2, all of them analyzed by XRF. Table S3. Linear correlations and probabilities associated for the Fe2O3, Mn, Co, Ni, Cr, MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2, found in serpentine soils from the SEP, all of them analyzed by XRF. Fig. S8. Principal components analysis (PCA) for the geochemistry of the serpentine soils and the score of each variable within each component. Fig. S9. Altitude correlation of the concentration of Fe (a), Mn (b), Ni (c) and Co (d) in the mountain serpentine soils and of Mn (e), Cr (f) and Co (g) in the inner ophiolite lowland serpentine soils. Fig. S10. Rarefaction curves for the prokaryotic communities in the serpentine soils overall the locations sampled in the SEP per observed species (a) and Fisher Alpha (b) after sequencing the V4 region of 16S rRNA. Fig. S11. Abundance of sequences per prokaryotic metabolic function assigned to phylogenetic clades after sequencing the V4 region of 16S rRNA in the serpentine soils overall the locations from the SEP. Fig. S12. Rarefaction curves for the fungal communities in the serpentine soils overall the locations sampled in the SEP per observed species (top) and Fisher Alpha (bottom) after sequencing the ITS2 region of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Fig. S13. Principal components analysis (PCA) for microbial-geochemical associations in the serpentine soils from the SEP and the score of each variable within each component.