DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5k54f
title: Data from: Fungal communities influence decomposition rates of plant litter from two dominant trees species

description: The home-field advantage hypothesis (HFA) predicts that plant litter
 decomposes faster than expected underneath the plant from which it
 originates. We tested this hypothesis in a decomposition experiment where
 litters were incubated reciprocally in neighbouring European beech and
 Norway spruce forests. We analysed fungal communities in the litter
 through DNA metabarcoding and evaluated the effect of mesofauna (mites and
 springtails) on litter mass loss by using different litter-bag mesh sizes.
 Accounting for general differences in decomposition between litter and
 forest types, we found a significant home field advantage of 24%. Litter
 decomposed faster in the beech forest but spruce litter decomposed faster
 than beech litter. Fungal communities showed a clear dependency on both
 forest and litter type. Mesofauna did not affect litter mass loss rates or
 microbial species composition.
description: Final OTU/Sample data
 matrixOTU-table with taxonomic
 annotation for OTUs and information on sample
 treatmentsOTU-samples
 matrix.xlsxRepresentative sequences
 for all OTUsUnclustered
 representative sequences for all OTUsFF_ITS_NC_uclustref_repset.fnaFF6_mapBarcode and primer mapping fileRaw sequences (forward reads) first partFirst part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (forward reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz.001FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz part 2Second part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (forward reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz.002FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz part3Third part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (forward reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz.003FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz part 4Fourth part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (forward reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R1_001.fastq.gz.004FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz part1First part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (reverse reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz.001FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz part2Second part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (reverse reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz.002FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz part3Third part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (reverse reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz.003FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz part4Fourth part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (reverse reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz.004FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz part 5Final part of the bzip-compressed fastq-file containing raw sequences (reverse reads) from Illumina HiSeq of pooled fungal DNA. Split with HJSplit as recommended by Dryad (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Large_File_Transfer).FFL6_S1_L001_R2_001.fastq.gz.005