Compositional change of bacterial communities in oil-polluted seawater amid varying degrees of nanoplankton bacterivory

This dataset contains the results of a 14 day microcosm study that investigated the compositional change of the bacterial communities in oil-polluted seawater. The data were generated based on laboratory experiments conducted at Ed Buskey's lab at the Marine Science Institute of University of Texas at Austin. The study was carried out in March and April 2020. The data include temperatures and light intensities of the environment, the abundances of bacteria and nanoplankton, the results of dilution experiments that consists of bacterial cell counts in different dilution fractions, and the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and n-alkanes in the microcosms throughout the duration of the microcosm study.