Find research datasets worth reusing
Search datasets from major research repositories and use ShareScore to quickly assess how well each record supports discovery, access, and reuse.
223
datasets available to search
ShareScore release 0.9.0
Dataset results
223 results for “soil functioning”
Ecological resilience of physical plant–soil feedback to chronic deer herbivory: slow, partial but functional recovery
<p>Ecological resilience to ungulate overbrowsing is an important issue in forest ecosystem. After chronic herbivory, the recovery rate of understory vegetation and its related functions can be slow even with decreasing grazing intensity; thus, detecting elasticity during alternative successional trajectories is fundamental to understanding state perturbations. In this context, we focused on physical plant–soil feedback (functional interactions between plant growths and soil physical conditions), and evaluated elasticity and recovery processes according to deer density. The effects of 40-year chronic herbivory by sika deer (average density 14.7 individuals km<sup>-2</sup>) on the recovery of understory plant communities and associated improvements in soil physical properties in headwater catchments were assessed. Using 8 years of catchment-wide exclusion (fenced) and reduction (only culled; average 4.3 individuals km<sup>-2</sup>) treatments, plot sampling was conducted in 2010 (before treatment) and 2018 (after treatment). The recovery of vegetation and soil physical properties were evaluated, and functional plant–soil relationships and spatial variability were assessed to detect recovery processes during alternative successional trajectory. Woody species increased only under the exclusion treatment and the average soil bulk density was lower than that under reduction treatments. Soil bulk density was negatively correlated with root biomass in the fenced catchment, and root biomass was positively associated with woody species richness. Reduced soil bulk density (~0.5 g cm<sup>-3</sup>) was observed with greater root biomass and woody species richness on upper hillslopes in the deer-excluded catchment where plant coverage was minimal. Successional failure under the reduction treatment suggested slow recovery with a depressed threshold according to deer density, indicating a clockwise hysteretic response to deer density. Unlike plant coverage during the earlier period of overbrowsing, woody species root development led the recovery of functional physical plant–soil feedback; however, this was probably limited by the higher soil erosion rate in riparian areas and an underdeveloped herb layer. Our results highlight an alternative recovery trajectory of physical plant–soil feedback driven by an alternative plant element (woody roots) to degradation trajectory with decreasing plant cover. However, riparian erosion and herb layer would still suppress recovery. Therefore, recovery might be slower at landscape scale.</p>
Figure 2 in Does logging affect soil biodiversity and its functions? A review
Figure 2. Number of studies focusing on soil organisms (▬) and ecosystem functions (▬) from 1986 to 2021.
Figure 5 in Does logging affect soil biodiversity and its functions? A review
Figure 5. Number of reviewed studies showing positive, neutral, negative or neutral/negative effects of logging on soil organisms. Note that Microorganism (Multitaxon) refers to studies that do not distinguish between bacterial and fungal organisms.
Figure 4 in Does logging affect soil biodiversity and its functions? A review
Figure 4. Number of reviewed studies on soil biodiversity and functions conducted in different biomes.
Supplementary material 1 from: Balestrini R, Delconte C, Buffagni A, Fumagalli A, Freppaz M, Calvo E, Buzzetti I (2019) Dynamic of nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon in an alpine forested catchment: atmospheric deposition and soil solution trends. In: Mazzocchi MG, Capotondi L, Freppaz M, Lugliè A, Campanaro A (Eds) Italian Long-Term Ecological Research for understanding ecosystem diversity and functioning. Case studies from aquatic, terrestrial and transitional domains. Nature Conservation 34: 41-66. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.34.30738
: Data type: statistical data
Data from: Functional diversity of Collembola is reduced in soils subjected to short-term, but not long-term, geothermal warming
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Ecological resilience of physical plant–soil feedback to chronic deer herbivory: slow, partial but functional recovery
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Climate, soil resources and microbial activity shape the distributions of mountain plants based on their functional traits
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: The strength of negative plant-soil feedback increases from the intraspecific to the interspecific and the functional group level
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Effects of plant functional group loss on soil biota and net ecosystem exchange: a plant removal experiment in the Mongolian grassland
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Direct and indirect effects of native range expansion on soil microbial community structure and function
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Effects of aridity on soil microbial communities and functions across soil depths on the Mongolian Plateau
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Eukaryotic metatranscriptomes of alpine soils and their links to the functioning of ecosystems
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Diversity in form and function: vertical distribution of soil fauna mediates multidimensional trait variation
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Cyanobacteria drive community composition and functionality in rock-soil interface communities
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
EFFECTS OF MICROPLASTICS AND DROUGHT ON SOIL ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND MULTIFUNCTIONALITY
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Plant functional groups regulate soil respiration responses to nitrogen addition and mowing over a decade
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Mechanisms driving the soil organic matter decomposition response to nutrient enrichment:Nutrient Network. A cross-site investigation of bottom-up control over herbaceous plant community dynamics and ecosystem function.
This experiment is one implementation of a globally distributed experiment, known as the Nutrient Network. At Cedar Creek, as in over 70 other sites in grasslands around the world, the experiment aims to describe impacts of increased nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and other metals) and decreased herbivory (removal of mammals by fencing). Two overarching questions are being explored with these manipulations: 1. To what extent are plant production and diversity co-limited by multiple nutrients in herbaceous-dominated communities? 2. Under what conditions do grazers or fertilization control plant biomass, diversity, and composition? By utilizing identical protocols at diverse grassland sites around the world, NutNet aims to uncover both the generalities in ecosystem functioning, and the contingencies or differences which can obscure those common mechanisms. In addition to the standard NutNet protocol, e247 includes an additional low Nitrogen gradient (1 gram Nitrogen per meter squared per year and 5 grams Nitrogen per meter squared per year in addition to the standard 10 grams Nitrogen per meter squared per year).
Survey of Functional Genes in the Arctic Soil
GEO Series GSE168623. soil metagenome; uncultured soil microorganism. 10 samples. Type: Other.
ScienceDex guides
Understand access before you commit
These curated guides explain access requirements, typical timelines, costs, and reuse considerations for widely used research datasets.
Allen Brain Atlas
Allen Brain Atlas is an Allen Institute collection of brain map atlases, datasets, APIs, and analysis tools covering mouse, human, and non-human primate brain resources.
Annotated Behaviour and Observability Dataset (ABODe)
ABODe is a University of Edinburgh DataShare dataset for behavior classification in group-housed mice using home-cage video, identities, bounding boxes, ground-plate positions, and annotator labels.
DANDI Archive for NWB datasets
DANDI is a BRAIN Initiative archive for publishing and sharing neurophysiology data, including electrophysiology, optophysiology, and behavioral data packaged as NWB and related standards.
International Brain Laboratory public data
The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.
OpenNeuro
OpenNeuro is a free, open platform for sharing neuroimaging datasets, with public search, dataset pages, and download paths for web, S3, DataLad, and the OpenNeuro CLI.