<strong>Microbial communities in terrestrial surface soils are not widely limited by carbon</strong>

This data set (named MCL_v. 1.0) in Excel format is a global investigation (n = 2476) of microbial carbon limitation in terrestrial surface soils, including ten variables (Numbers, Paper ID, Reference, Continent, MAT, MAP, Sample size, Longitude, Latitude and MCL). The list of reference of data sources can be found in the Supplemental information of publication.