The covariation between soil microbial communities and multidimensional fine-root economics space

The data is for the purpose of testing the covariation of plant root strategy and microbial community. It contains data on in situ root exudation, root chemical and morphological traits across 15 tree species in a tropical common garden in southwestern China. We further performed analyses on phospholipid fatty acid and high-throughput amplicon sequencing to estimate the fungal-to-bacterial ratio and diversity of bacterial community in the soils corresponding to target trees. There are three data files in this dataset. One is the "bacterial communities OTU.csv", which contains the original OTU data of bacteria across the 3 replicates of 15 tree species. The "bacterial_abundance(Phylum)&tree_species.csv" file contains the annotated bacterial Phylum of 3 replicates of 15 target tree species. The "root_traits&microbial_biomass&bacterial_diversity.xlsx" file contains the fine-root traits, Total PLFA, fungal-to-bacterial ratio, bacterial stress, and bacterial diversity data of 15 tree species with 3 replicates.