A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities

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T1 - A global database of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids and enzyme activities

AU - van Galen, Laura G.

AU - Smith, Gabriel Reuben

AU - Margenot, Andrew J.

AU - Waldrop, Mark P.

AU - Crowther, Thomas W.

AU - Peay, Kabir G.

AU - Jackson, Robert B.

AU - Yu, Kailiang

AU - Abrahão, Anna

AU - Ahmed, Talaat A.

AU - Alatalo, Juha M.

AU - Anslan, Sten

AU - Anthony, Mark A.

AU - Araujo, Ademir Sergio Ferreira

AU - Ascher-Jenull, Judith

AU - Bach, Elizabeth M.

AU - Bahram, Mohammad

AU - Baker, Christopher C.M.

AU - Baldrian, Petr

AU - Bardgett, Richard D.

AU - Barrios-Garcia, M. Noelia

AU - Bastida, Felipe

AU - Beggi, Francesca

AU - Benning, Liane G.

AU - Bragazza, Luca

AU - Broadbent, Arthur A.D.

AU - Cano-Díaz, Concha

AU - Cates, Anna M.

AU - Cerri, Carlos E.P.

AU - Cesarz, Simone

AU - Chen, Baodong

AU - Classen, Aimeé T.

AU - Dahl, Mathilde Borg

AU - Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

AU - Eisenhauer, Nico

AU - Evgrafova, Svetlana Yu

AU - Fanin, Nicolas

AU - Fornasier, Flavio

AU - Francisco, Romeu

AU - Franco, André L.C.

AU - Frey, Serita D.

AU - Fritze, Hannu

AU - García, Carlos

AU - García-Palacios, Pablo

AU - Gómez-Brandón, María

AU - Gonzalez-Polo, Marina

AU - Gozalo, Beatriz

AU - Griffiths, Robert

AU - Guerra, Carlos

AU - Hallama, Moritz

AU - Hiiesalu, Inga

AU - Hossain, Mohammad Zabed

AU - Hu, Yajun

AU - Insam, Heribert

AU - Jassey, Vincent E.J.

AU - Jiang, Lili

AU - Kandeler, Ellen

AU - Kohout, Petr

AU - Kõljalg, Urmas

AU - Krashevska, Valentyna

AU - Li, Xiaofei

AU - Lu, Jing Zhong

AU - Lu, Xiankai

AU - Luo, Shan

AU - Lutz, Stefanie

AU - Mackie-Haas, Kathleen Allison

AU - Maestre, Fernando T.

AU - Malmivaara-Lämsä, Minna

AU - Mangelsdorf, Kai

AU - Manjarrez, Maria

AU - Marhan, Sven

AU - Martin, Ashley

AU - Mason, Kelly E.

AU - Mayor, Jordan

AU - McCulley, Rebecca L.

AU - Moora, Mari

AU - Morais, Paula V.

AU - Muñoz-Rojas, Miriam

AU - Murugan, Rajasekaran

AU - Nottingham, Andrew T.

AU - Ochoa, Victoria

AU - Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl

AU - Oja, Jane

AU - Olsson, Pål Axel

AU - Öpik, Maarja

AU - Ostle, Nick

AU - Peltoniemi, Krista

AU - Pennanen, Taina

AU - Pescador, David S.

AU - Png, G. Kenny

AU - Poll, Christian

AU - Põlme, Sergei

AU - Potapov, Anton M.

AU - Priemé, Anders

AU - Pritchard, William

AU - Puissant, Jeremy

AU - Rocha, Sandra Mara Barbosa

AU - Rosinger, Christoph

AU - Ruess, Liliane

AU - Sayer, Emma J.

AU - Scheu, Stefan

AU - Sinsabaugh, Robert L.

AU - Slaughter, Lindsey C.

AU - Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.

AU - Sousa, José Paulo

AU - Stanish, Lee

AU - Sugiyama, Shu Ichi

AU - Tedersoo, Leho

AU - Trivedi, Pankaj

AU - Vahter, Tanel

AU - Voriskova, Jana

AU - Wagner, Dirk

AU - Wang, Cong

AU - Wardle, David A.

AU - Whitaker, Jeanette

AU - Yang, Yuanhe

AU - Zhong, Zhiwei

AU - Zhu, Kai

AU - Ziolkowski, Lori A.

AU - Zobel, Martin

AU - van den Hoogen, Johan

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s).

PY - 2025/9/26

Y1 - 2025/9/26

N2 - Soil microbes drive ecosystem function and play a critical role in how ecosystems respond to global change. Research surrounding soil microbial communities has rapidly increased in recent decades, and substantial data relating to phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and potential enzyme activity have been collected and analysed. However, studies have mostly been restricted to local and regional scales, and their accuracy and usefulness are limited by the extent of accessible data. Here we aim to improve data availability by collating a global database of soil PLFA and potential enzyme activity measurements from 12,258 georeferenced samples located across all continents, 5.1% of which have not previously been published. The database contains data relating to 113 PLFAs and 26 enzyme activities, and includes metadata such as sampling date, sample depth, and soil pH, total carbon, and total nitrogen. This database will help researchers in conducting both global- and local-scale studies to better understand soil microbial biomass and function.

AB - Soil microbes drive ecosystem function and play a critical role in how ecosystems respond to global change. Research surrounding soil microbial communities has rapidly increased in recent decades, and substantial data relating to phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and potential enzyme activity have been collected and analysed. However, studies have mostly been restricted to local and regional scales, and their accuracy and usefulness are limited by the extent of accessible data. Here we aim to improve data availability by collating a global database of soil PLFA and potential enzyme activity measurements from 12,258 georeferenced samples located across all continents, 5.1% of which have not previously been published. The database contains data relating to 113 PLFAs and 26 enzyme activities, and includes metadata such as sampling date, sample depth, and soil pH, total carbon, and total nitrogen. This database will help researchers in conducting both global- and local-scale studies to better understand soil microbial biomass and function.

U2 - 10.1038/s41597-025-05759-2

DO - 10.1038/s41597-025-05759-2

M3 - Article

C2 - 41006295

AN - SCOPUS:105017416190

SN - 2052-4463

VL - 12

SP - 1568

JO - Scientific data

JF - Scientific data

IS - 1

ER -