Metagenome raw sequences to experimentally test the effect of consecutive exposure to salt pulse disturbances on the microbial community dynamics. German Research Foundation (DFG), grant number: AOBJ: 63764

The study aims to describe microbial genomic traits of complex communities concerning their adaptability to salt pulse disturbances. By the application of a continuous culture experiment design with a metacommunity as starting inoculum, we experimentally studied how the exposure (41 days) of coastal microbial communities to consecutive salt disturbances leads to a selection resistant and resilience-related genomic traits. We additionally tested the dependency on nutrient availability, supporting the notion of metabolic constraints on stability traits for a better understanding of the effects of multiple disturbances due to global change perturbations.