Dataset for "Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands"

1) Compiled mean soil respirations from boreal to tropical peatlands; 2) Soil physicochemical parameters, the decomposing capability of microbes, the temperature sensitivity, and the relative contribution of fungi and bacterial to decomposition in the subtropical shrub-dominated peatland in North Carolina and the boreal Sphagnum-dominated peatland in Minnesota, USA.