Microbiology and soil characteristics in different situations, below different types of plants in Lamto savanna, Côte d’Ivoire, 2014

In the other situations they were only collected between grass tussocks. Away from trees and tree clumps, four grass species were sampled (Andropogon canaliculatus, Andropogon schirensis, Hyparrhenia diplandra and Loudetia simplex). Together with root density and some physicochemical characteristics (pH, carbon and nitrogen concentration, 13C and 15N signatures), the dataset gives the abundances of bacteria (16S rRNA), archaea (16S rRNA), fungi, amoA-AOA, amoA-AOB, nirK, nirS genes after DNA extraction from the soil.

Finally, the dataset also contains the potential nitrification and denitrification fluxes. There are in most cases 5 replicates by combination of treatments. Detailed methods for measurements are given in the published article.

There are two files. One for the soil microbiology data. The other for soil chemical properties.

Each file contains a dictionnary of the variables together with their units. The sampling was achieved in 2014 by J.-C. Lata, S. Barot, M. Konan, and the data was used during Tharaniya Srikanthasamy's PhD. The soil and microbiological analyses have been achieved by the authors of Srikanthasamy, T., J. Leloup, A. B. N’Dri, S. Barot, J. Gervaix, A. W. Koné, K. F. Koffi, X. Le Roux, X. Raynaud, and J.-C. Lata. 2018.

Contrasting effects of grasses and trees on microbial N-cycling in an African humid savanna. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 117:153-163.