Data from: Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi respond differently to long-term experimentally increased snow depth in the High Arctic ...

• Main Authors: Mundra, Sunil, Halvorsen, Rune, Kauserud, Håvard, Bahram, Mohammad, Tedersoo, Leho, Elberling, Bo, Cooper, Elisabeth J., Eidesen, Pernille Bronken
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2017
• Subjects: fungal richness and communities; arctic ecology; temporal variation; winter warming; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r7pc5; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.r7pc5

Changing climate is expected to alter precipitation patterns in the Arctic, with consequences for subsurface temperature and moisture conditions, community structure, and nutrient mobilization through microbial belowground processes. Here, we address the effect of increased snow depth on the variation in species richness and community structure of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) and saprotrophic fungi. Soil samples were collected weekly from mid-July to mid-September in both control and deep snow plots. Richness of ECM fungi was lower, while saprotrophic fungi was higher in increased snow depth plots relative to controls. [Correction added on 23 September 2016 after first online publication: In the preceding sentence, the richness of ECM and saprotrophic fungi were wrongly interchanged and have been fixed in this current version.] ECM fungal richness was related to soil NO3-N, NH4-N, and K; and saprotrophic fungi to NO3-N and pH. Small but significant changes in the composition of saprotrophic fungi could be ... : F_L001_R1.fastqPaired-end Illumina seqeuncing output fastq file with forward readsF_L001_R2.fastqPaired-end Illumina seqeuncing output fastq file with reverse readsmapfile_fsoilMapping file associated with sequencing read files. ...