Data from: Coordinated responses of soil communities to elevation in three subarctic vegetation types ...

• Main Authors: Veen, G. F. Ciska, De Long, Jonathan R., Kardol, Paul, Sundqvist, Maja K., Snoek, L. Basten, Wardle, David A.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: soil food web; subarctic tundra; Abisko; Northern Sweden; Subarctic; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d11rv; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.d11rv

Global warming has begun to have a major impact on the species composition and functioning of plant and soil communities. However, long-term community and ecosystem responses to increased temperature are still poorly understood. In this study, we used a well-established elevational gradient in northern Sweden to elucidate how plant, microbial and nematode communities shift with elevation and associated changes in temperature in three highly contrasting vegetation types (i.e. heath, meadow and Salix vegetation). We found that responses of both the abundance and composition of microbial and nematode communities to elevation differed greatly among the vegetation types. Within vegetation types, changes with elevation of plant, microbial and nematode communities were mostly linked at fine levels of taxonomic resolution, but this pattern disappeared when coarser functional group levels were considered. Further, nematode communities shifted towards more conservative nutrient cycling strategies with increasing ... : Data Veen et al_Oikos_10.1111/oik.04158File contains plant, microbial and nematode abundance data + environmental variables (e.g. soil parameters) and a description of methods, plots and species/taxa (READ ME).Data soil biota Abisko ms_for Dryad.xlsx ...