DOI: 10.5061/dryad.51c59zwjp
title: Data from: Soil fauna trophic multifunctionality mediates the release of elements from decomposing typhoon generated leaf litter

description: Tropical cyclones (i.e., hurricanes, typhoons) cause large pulse fluxes of
 leaves that have not undergone senescence (i.e., green litter) to forest
 soils, with consequences for biogeochemical cycling. Energy and mineral
 nutrient concentrations of green litter are higher than the naturally
 senesced litter, likely affecting rates of decomposition and nutrient
 release, as well as the structure and composition of detrital food webs,
 but these effects have not been well quantified. During the typhoon
 ‘Hagubit’, we collected green and senesced litter from three common urban
 greening species, and then conducted a 316 days field experiment to
 evaluate substrate quality affected the trophic multifunctionality of soil
 faunal communities, and ultimately elemental release from the decomposing
 litter. Nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sodium (Na), calcium
 (Ca), and magnesium (Mg) were released at significantly higher rates from
 green litter than senesced litter. Aluminum (Al), manganese (Mn), and iron
 (Fe) displayed a net accumulation during litter decomposition, and the
 immobilization of these elements was significantly higher in green than
 senesced litter. Litter substrate chemistry directly affected the release
 rates of elements, but its influence was stronger in decomposing senesced
 litter compared to green litter. Detritivores dominated green and senesced
 litter faunal communities relative to predators, omnivores, and
 herbivores, and these distinct fauna functional groups showed
 significantly positive correlation during decomposition, but soil fauna
 trophic multifunctionality was significantly higher in green litter and
 stimulated the release of elements.  These findings suggest that
 typhoons dramatically alter the dynamics of nutrient release during litter
 decomposition, and the influences are mediated in part by its substrate
 quality and changes in soil fauna trophic multifunctionality, which has
 significant implications for the magnitude and timing of soil nutrient
 availability after typhoon disturbances.
description: This dataset regarding litter N, P, K, Na, Ca, Mg, Al, Mn, and Fe
 as well as soil fauna with distinct feeding preferences, which were
 collected from litter decomposition experiment and all detailed
 information can be found in the section of METHODS.
description: * File name: README_Dataset * Title of Dataset: Soil fauna trophic
 multifunctionality mediates the release of elements from decomposing
 typhoon generated leaf litter * Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.51c59zwjp *
 Authors: Lifeng Wang * Email: [scwanglf@163.com](mailto:scwanglf@163.com)
 * Address: 1139 Shifu Dadao, Taizhou University, Taizhou City, Zhejiang
 Province, China * Other contributors: Craig R. See, Huibin Wang, Rui Cao,
 Guopeng Liang, Ajuan Zhang, Zhuang Wang, Qin Wang, Zhihui Wang, Benjuan
 Liu, Wanqin Yang* * Organization: Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of
 Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, School of Life Sciences,
 Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, China * Date created: 2024-12-27
 *Contributor ORCID IDs * Lifeng Wang:
 [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9349-7145](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9567-2170) * Acknowledgements * Funding sources: The research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U22A20450, 32071554, 32201537, and 32101386) Methodological Information * Methods of data collection/generation: see article for details * Geographic locations of data collection: Taizhou University, Zhejiang, China Description of the data and file structure * This dataset has one EXCEL. xlsx file with two parts (1: Nutrientelements, 2: Soilfauna) in the article, specifically as follow: * For the data of Nutrientelements, the variations includes litter mass, N, P, K, Na, Ca, Mg, Al, Mn, and Fe. The microsite have three as replicate. the sampling includes the initial substrate data and the subsequent the days of 92, 182, 250, 281, and 316. For the "senesced litter-K. bipinnata_0.04*3mm" is the decomposition of the senesced litter of K. bipinnata in litterbags with mesh size of 0.04*3mm, and each other column is encoded the same way. * For the data of soilfauna, sampling1, 2, 3, and 4 is the decomposition after the days of 92, 182, 250, 281. For the "senesced litter-K. bipinnata-microsite1" is  the soil fanua from the decomposing senesced litter of K. bipinnata in the microsite1, and each other column is encoded the same way. It's noted that the taxonomy of predators, herbivores, omnivores, and detritivores based on the distinct feeding preferences and which was detailed described in the section of METHOD and the online supporting information.