A dataset of soil microbial enzyme activities and nitrogen cycling functional genes in Puding County of Guizhou Province

This dataset includes the data on soil microbial enzyme activities and nitrogen cycling functional genes under five vegetation types from Chenqi Catchment (farmland, abandoned farmland, shrubland, and secondary forest) and Tianlong Mountain (primary forest) at the Puding Karst Station in 2016 and 2018. The dataset consists of one excel file with 8 sheets, covering the basic information of the profile soils at the study sites in 2016, soil enzymes activities, nitrogen cycling functional gene abundance and nitrogen transformation rate, microbial living biomass, microbial residue carbon, and soil physicochemical properties of profile soils along soil profiles ranging from surface to bedrock layer under the different vegetation types of 2016. Furthermore, the dataset also includes physicochemical properties and enzyme activities of the rhizosphere soils in the primary forest of 2018.