Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

These data comprise culturable cell counts in different media from soil microbial analysis within a microcosm experiment investigating moisture perturbations on microbes, set up at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford. The experiment used soil turves from outside the main experimental plots at Sourhope, Scotland, collected in July 2001. Soil moisture data are also included.

Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity).

本数据集涵盖牛津生态与水文学中心（Centre for Ecology & Hydrology）开展的一项探究微生物水分扰动的微宇宙实验中，不同培养基中土壤微生物分析所得的可培养细胞计数数据。该实验所用土壤草皮块采集自苏格兰苏霍普（Sourhope）主实验样地外围，采集时间为2001年7月，数据集同时包含土壤水分数据。

本数据作为1999年设立的自然环境研究委员会（Natural Environment Research Council, NERC）土壤生物多样性主题项目（NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme）的一部分被采集，该项目聚焦于苏格兰边境地区苏霍普的麦考利土地利用研究所（Macaulay Land Use Research Institute，现为詹姆斯·赫顿研究所（James Hutton Institute））农场内的大型野外实验的深入研究。在此期间，研究人员对该实验样地开展了监测，以评估地上生物量产量（生产力）、物种组成及相对丰度（多样性）的变化。