Dead Juniper Wood Microbes

This study aims to investigate whether essential oils remain in dead Utah juniper trunks following wildfires, to characterize any changes in the essential oil composition following tree death, and to examine the relationship between biotic decomposition influencers of the dead trees, namely fungi, bacteria, and insects. The sequence data include 16S and ITS amplicons of bacteria and fungi, respectively, that were found in standing dead Juniperus osteosperma specimens across a chronosequence of fires in Utah.