Metadata for European forest soil microbiomes under disturbance and management

The table contains metadata (soil, microbial, and site metadata) for the data paper titled "European forest soil microbiomes under disturbance and management". It also contains subsets of the metadata, used to create figures for enzymes and biomass. Forest soils were sampled in boreal, temperate, and Mediterranean forests under different management and natural disturbance regimes, including windthrow, fire, clearcutting, thinning, and root exclusion alongside undisturbed controls across 22 study areas (452 locations). The dataset includes, for each sample, treatment description, soil chemistry, microbial biomass, potential enyzme activity and metabarcoding data of fungal and bacterial communities. By providing data from samples collected and analysed using standardised methodologies, this resource enables comparative analyses of soil and microbiome traits in the management and disturbance context and represents a baseline for a potential analysis of forest vulnerability and soil development for the future.The code provided can be used to reproduce the figures for enzymes, biomass, and the map of sites.