Data for: Rewilding soil and litter invertebrates and fungi increases decomposition rates and alters detritivore communities

Habitat degradation and associated reductions in ecosystem functions can be reversed by reintroducing or ‘rewilding’ keystone species. Rewilding projects have historically targeted restoration of processes such as grazing regimes or top-down predation effects. Few projects focus on restoring decomposition efficiency, despite the pivotal role decomposition plays in global carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling. Here, we tested whether rewilding entire communities of detritivorous invertebrates and fungi can improve litter decomposition efficiency and restore detritivore communities during ecological restoration. Rewilding was conducted by transplanting leaf litter and soil, including associated invertebrate and fungal communities from species-rich remnant sites into species-poor, and geographically isolated, revegetated farmland sites in a temperate woodland region of southeastern Australia. We compared communities in sites under the following treatments: remnant (conservation area an..., This dataset is part of a long term study, examining the effect of litter and soil transplants on invertebrates and microbes. To process invertebrate detritivores, we took litter samples and ran them through tullgren funnels at 3 different time points after the initial litter and soil transplants. To process fungal saprotrophs, we took soil samples in conjuction with the invertebrate samples. All steps in data processing are listed in the 'code.R' file., , # Data for: Rewilding soil and litter invertebrates and fungi increases decomposition rates and alters detritivore communities [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ncjsxkt1r](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ncjsxkt1r) This dataset contains a suite of environmental measurements, decomposition measurements, and community matrices for invertebrate and fungal detritivores. Data were collected at four time points, once pre-rewilding, and three times post-rewilding. We found that rewilding detritivore communities via soil and litter transplants increased the number of invertebrate detritivores, which had cascading effects on decomposition rates. ## Description of the data and file structure The dataset contains various .csv files that link to the `code.R` file. Within the `code.R` file, there are lines of codes that detail the analyses of each figure in the manuscript. Metadata for field sites can be found in the `metadata.csv` file, which documents geographic location of each site in WGS 84. -...生境退化及其伴随的生态系统功能衰退，可通过重新引入或rewilding（野化）关键物种得以逆转。过往的野化项目多聚焦于恢复放牧制度、下行捕食效应等生态过程。尽管分解过程在全球碳固存与养分循环中发挥关键作用，但鲜有项目致力于恢复分解效率。本研究旨在验证：在生态修复过程中，野化食碎屑无脊椎动物（detritivorous invertebrates）与真菌的完整群落，是否能够提升枯落物分解效率并恢复食碎屑生物群落。 本研究通过移植枯落物与土壤（包含附生的无脊椎动物与真菌群落），将物种丰富的原生样地的群落引入澳大利亚东南部温带林区中物种匮乏且地理隔离的植被恢复农田样地，以此开展野化实验。本研究对以下处理组的样地群落进行了对比：原生保护样地（conservation area an... 本数据集隶属于一项长期研究，该研究旨在探究枯落物与土壤移植对无脊椎动物及微生物的影响。为处理食碎屑无脊椎动物样本，研究团队在初始枯落物与土壤移植后的3个不同时间点采集枯落物样本，并通过Tullgren漏斗（Tullgren funnel）进行分离。为处理腐生真菌（saprotrophic fungi）样本，研究团队同步采集土壤样本以匹配无脊椎动物样本的采集时序。所有数据处理步骤均已在`code.R`文件中列明。 # 数据集说明：野化土壤与枯落物食碎屑无脊椎动物及真菌可提升分解速率并改变食碎屑生物群落 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ncjsxkt1r 本数据集包含一系列环境测量数据、分解速率测量数据，以及食碎屑无脊椎动物与真菌的群落矩阵（community matrices）。数据采集共设置4个时间节点：野化前1次，野化后3次。研究结果表明：通过土壤与枯落物移植野化食碎屑生物群落，可提升食碎屑无脊椎动物的种群数量，进而对分解速率产生级联效应。 ## 数据与文件结构说明 本数据集包含多个与`code.R`文件关联的.csv格式文件。`code.R`文件中包含可复现论文中所有图表分析的代码脚本。 野外样地的元数据（metadata）可在`metadata.csv`文件中获取，该文件记录了所有样地基于WGS 84坐标系的地理坐标。