14.07.2025 by Anna Doménech-Pascual

General information:

This repository contains the following files: - models: R script to obtain linear mixed effect models used to decipher the most relevant driving variables, including soil characteristics and climatic variables, for microbial biomass (prokaryotes and fungi) and a range of different soil functions (extracellular enzyme activities and microbial aerobic respiration) - mydatamodels: csv file with the dataset used for the models. - legend: csv file with the descripton of the acronyms and units for each variable from mydatamodels.

Explanation of study:

This repository is related to the publication (Doménech-Pascual et al., 2025), where soil samples from a natural humid to arid climate gradient across the Iberian Peninsula were sampled in order to identify the main drivers of soil function variability along that gradient.

Here the list of the name of each site sampled with their respective coordinates:

Artikutza (ATK), 43.19830N, 1.80540W; Las Herrerías (LHE), 42.66882N, 6.98307W; Gavarres (GAV), 41.89968N, 2.91217E; Coy (COY), 37.94358N, 1.77985W; Tabernas (TAB), 37.00954N, 2.44254W; Vallcebre (VAL), 42.20294N, 1.82094E; Arantzazu (ARZ), 42.96013N, 2.37830W; Fragas do Eume (FDE), 43.36926N, 7.98579W; Santomera (SAN), 38.09860N, 1.03135W; Malcamino (MAL), 37.58771N, 1.44243W; Montgrí (MON), 42.06125N, 3.12231E; Albera (ALB), 42.39600N, 2.98230E.

Methods and materials:

For a complete description of the methods used to collect and generate the data and the R script we refer to the publication: Doménech-Pascual et al. (2025).

Autorship of this repository:

• A. Doménech-Pascual, GRECO, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona (Girona, Spain)
• L. Chavez Rodriguez, Soil Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen, The Netherlands)

License:

This dataset is published under the CC-BY license. This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creators

Reference:

Doménech-Pascual, A., Rodriguez, L. C., Han, X., Casas-Ruiz, J. P., Ferriol-Ciurana, J., Donhauser, J., Jordaan, K., Allison, S. D., Frossard, A., Priemé, A., Ramond, J.-B., & Romaní, A. M. (2025). Soil functions are shaped by aridity through soil properties and the microbial community structure. Applied Soil Ecology, 213, 106313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106313