Deep Peat Incubation Raw Sequence Reads. soil metagenome

The Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Climatic and Environmental Change (SPRUCE) experiment is a large-scale ecosystem manipulation designed to examine how peatland ecosystems respond to increased temperature and CO2 levels. This experiment is expected to lead to various changes in ecosystem processes, including microbially mediated biogeochemical cycling, thus ultimately altering the overall C balance of these ecosystems. In an effort to identify factors that may be limiting decomposition and microbial community change in the deep peat, we conducted a microcosm incubation of deep peat (150-200 cm depth) at 6 and 15 °C to mimic ambient and +9 °C SPRUCE conditions. Additional treatments included elevated pH and the addition of N and P.