Data from Globally Consistent Drivers of Plant Microbiome Diversity Across Hosts and Continents

We experimentally manipulated two potential mediators of plant microbiome diversity (soil nutrient supply and herbivore density) at 23 grassland sites spanning global-scale gradients in soil nutrients, climate, and plant biomass. This work used sites that are part of the Nutrient Network Experiment (NutNet; www.nutnet.org), a globally replicated experiment manipulating elemental nutrient supplies and herbivore density in grasslands worldwide. Using amplicon sequencing, we measured relative abundances of fungal (ITS1) and prokaryotic (16S) diversity in the leaves of the most widespread grass at each of 23 grassland sites (focal hosts included 18 grass species from 15 genera).