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.

本研究旨在探究野火过后，犹他杜松（Utah juniper）的枯树干中是否仍残留精油，表征树木枯死后精油成分所发生的各类变化，并探究枯木生物分解影响因子——即真菌、细菌与昆虫——之间的关联。该测序数据分别包含细菌的16S扩增子与真菌的ITS扩增子，这些扩增子均采自犹他州不同火灾时间序列中的犹他杜松（Juniperus osteosperma）枯立木标本。