Abundance of nitrogen and carbon cycling bacterial and archaeal populations from six habitat types in a south Louisiana salt marsh, June 2015

This dataset contains abundances of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB), denitrifying bacteria (DNB), and total bacteria collected in June 2015 from marsh sediments at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) in Chauvin, Louisiana, representing six different marsh habitats: Spartina-dominated, Juncus-dominated, marsh edge, tidal creek, marsh depression, and tidal pool. Each sample was analyzed by quantitative PCR for the abundance of AOB (betaproteobacterial amoA genes), AOA (archaeal amoA genes), MOB (pmoA genes), DNB (nirS genes), and total bacteria (16S rRNA genes).