Climatic seasonality challenges the conservation of microbial-driven deep-soil carbon accumulation

This dataset provides data on microbial residues (proxy by amino sugars) from a continental-scale standardized survey across three soil depths (topsoil: 0-30 cm, subsoil: 30-60 cm, deep soil: 60-100 cm) from 44 natural ecosystems (from 19.95°N to 48.05°N) covering a broad range of climate, vegetation and soil types. The dataset also contains other environmental variables related to geographic, climatic, vegetation and edaphic factors. This dataset includes data of 14 variables from the field survey, and data of 9 variables collected from publicly accessible data sources. Data from the filed survey: Longitude, Latitude, Elevation, Vg_type, SOC, TN, SOC:TN, pH, Amino sugars (AS), AS/SOC, Muramic acid (MurA), Fungal glucosamine (F_Glu), MurA/SOC, F_Glu/SOC Data collected from publicly accessible data sources: Climate, MAT, TS, TAR, MAP, PMAX, SP, NDVI, Clay Climate classification was obtained from the Updated world map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification¹. Climatic variables were collected from the WorldClim version 2 database² (https://www.worldclim.org; ~1 km resolution, 1970-2000). The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) was obtained from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/; MOD13A1 v006, ~500 m resolution, 2000-2021, Yearly maximum NDVI)³. Soil clay content was collected from high resolution National Soil Information Grids of China^{4, 5} (http://soil.geodata.cn; ~1 km resolution). For detailed information please see the article entitled "Climatic seasonality challenges the conservation of microbial-driven deep-soil carbon accumulation", and the references attached below. For copyright issues, please contact Shuhai Wen ([e-mail]) and Yu-Rong Liu ([e-mail])