Effects of pesticides on soil bacterial, fungal and protist communities, soil functions and crop quality in vineyards

Pesticides can have unintentional effects on non-target organisms and change biotic communities. Such changes might be particularly important in soil microbial communities which drive many ecosystem functions and may affect crop quality. Here, we investigated, in a 3-year study, how vegetation control (by herbicide application) and soil copper content (from long-term copper-based fungicide application), affect biodiversity and the community structure of soil bacteria, fungi and protists and associated soil functions (respiration, decomposition) in Swiss vineyards. Furthermore, we determined the effects of these two management practices on grape quality as the most direct ecosystem service to farmers. Across all study years, the community composition of microorganisms was affected by herbicide application, however, a significant loss of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) was only observed in fungi and protists. Soil copper content reduced OTU richness of bacteria and protists in some yea..., See the associated Readme file and manuscript part \"Materials and methods\"., , # Data from: Effects of pesticides on soil bacterial, fungal and protist communities, soil functions and crop quality in vineyards

Microbial Diversity datasets
OTU tables for microbial groups bacteria, fungi and protist separately for each year 2015, 2016, 2017
-contains information about OTUs and associated number of reads for each DNA_sample_ID

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FILENAME: \"DNA_Sample_ID.xlsx\"

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