DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13341607
title: Soil microbial communities from tropical forest and oil palm

description: Description

  
A study examining the impact of selective logging and forest conversion to oil palm on soil microbial community composition. Soil samples were collected from old growth forest, selectively logged forest and oil palm plantations. Soil bacterial, protistan and fungal community composition were measured and summarised by calculating richness. 

  
  
  
Projects
  

    This dataset was collected as part of the following projects:
  

    
    
https://safeproject.net/projects/project_view/124
    
    
  
  

  

  
  
  
Funding
  

    These data were collected as part of research funded by:
  
  

    
    
UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium (Standard grant , NE/K016377/1
      )
    
    
  
  

  
This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has
    the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any
    outputs.
  

  
  
  
Permits

  
These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:

  

    
    
Sabah Biodiversity Centre ( Research licence JKM/MBS.1000-2/2 JLD.5 (20))
    
    
Sabah Biodiversity Centre ( Export licence JKM/MBS.1000-2/3 JLD.2 (70))
    
  
  

  

  
  
Files

  
This dataset consists of 1 file:
    SAFE_Dataset_Richness.xlsx

  
  
SAFE_Dataset_Richness.xlsx

  
  
This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:
  
  
Soil_Microbial_Communities
  

    
Worksheet: Soil_Microbial_Communities
    
Description: Summary richness statistics from bacterial 16S, protistan 18S and fungal ITS biomarker microbial sequencing from DNA extracted from soils
    
Number of fields: 10
    
Number of data rows: 225
    

      
      
PlotName: Plot name corresponding to the GEM Carbon plot where soils were sampled (type: id)
      
      
ForestType: Old-growth, Logged or Oil palm (type: categorical)
      
      
ForestPlotsCode: Plot name as listed in ForestPlots database (type: id)
      
      
Replicate: replicate identifier for which soil core taken from each subplot (type: replicate)
      
      
location_name: Name of subplot where soils were collected (type: location)
      
      
Bacteria_Richness: Number of observed bacterial taxa from sequencing of 16S marker genes from soil samples (type: numeric)
      
      
Protist_Richness: Number of observed protistan taxa from sequencing of 18S marker genes from soil samples (type: numeric)
      
      
Fungal_Richness: Number of observed fungal taxa from sequencing of 16S marker genes from soil samples (type: numeric)
      
      
EcM_Fungal_Richness: Number of observed Ectomycorrhizal fungal taxa from sequencing of ITS marker genes from soil samples (type: numeric)
      
      
AMF_Fungal_Richness: Number of observed Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungal taxa from sequencing of ITS marker genes from soil samples (type: numeric)
      
    
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
Extents
  

    
Date range: 2014-10-01 to 2018-09-01
    
Latitudinal extent: 4.64° to 4.954°
    
Longitudinal extent: 116.95° to 117.796°