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

  • Laura G. van Galen
  • , Gabriel Reuben Smith
  • , Andrew J. Margenot
  • , Mark P. Waldrop
  • , Thomas W. Crowther
  • , Kabir G. Peay
  • , Robert B. Jackson
  • , Kailiang Yu
  • , Anna Abrahão
  • , Talaat A. Ahmed
  • , Juha M. Alatalo
  • , Sten Anslan
  • , Mark A. Anthony
  • , Ademir Sergio Ferreira Araujo
  • , Judith Ascher-Jenull
  • , Elizabeth M. Bach
  • , Mohammad Bahram
  • , Christopher C. M. Baker
  • , Petr Baldrian
  • , Richard D. Bardgett
  • M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia, Felipe Bastida, Francesca Beggi, Liane G. Benning, Luca Bragazza, Arthur A. D. Broadbent, Concha Cano-Díaz, Anna M. Cates, Carlos E. P. Cerri, Simone Cesarz, Baodong Chen, Aimeé T. Classen, Mathilde Borg Dahl, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Nico Eisenhauer, Svetlana Yu. Evgrafova, Nicolas Fanin, Flavio Fornasier, Romeu Francisco, André L. C. Franco, Serita D. Frey, Hannu Fritze, Carlos García, Pablo García-Palacios, María Gómez-Brandón, Marina Gonzalez-Polo, Beatriz Gozalo, Robert Griffiths, Carlos Guerra, Moritz Hallama, Inga Hiiesalu, Mohammad Zabed Hossain, Yajun Hu, Heribert Insam, Vincent E. J. Jassey, Lili Jiang, Ellen Kandeler, Petr Kohout, Urmas Kõljalg, Valentyna Krashevska, Xiaofei Li, Jing-Zhong Lu, Xiankai Lu, Shan Luo, Stefanie Lutz, Kathleen Allison Mackie-Haas, Fernando T. Maestre, Minna Malmivaara-Lämsä, Kai Mangelsdorf, Maria Manjarrez, Sven Marhan, Ashley Martin, Kelly E. Mason, Jordan Mayor, Rebecca L. McCulley, Mari Moora, Paula V. Morais, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Rajasekaran Murugan, Andrew T. Nottingham, Victoria Ochoa, Raúl Ochoa-Hueso, Jane Oja, Pål Axel Olsson, Maarja Öpik, Nick Ostle, Krista Peltoniemi, Taina Pennanen, David S. Pescador, G. Kenny Png, Christian Poll, Sergei Põlme, Anton M. Potapov, Anders Priemé, William Pritchard, Jeremy Puissant, Sandra Mara Barbosa Rocha, Christoph Rosinger, Liliane Ruess, Emma J. Sayer, Stefan Scheu, Robert L. Sinsabaugh, Lindsey C. Slaughter, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, José Paulo Sousa, Lee Stanish, Shu-ichi Sugiyama, Leho Tedersoo, Pankaj Trivedi, Tanel Vahter, Jana Voriskova, Dirk Wagner, Cong Wang, David A. Wardle, Jeanette Whitaker, Yuanhe Yang, Zhiwei Zhong, Kai Zhu, Lori A. Ziolkowski, Martin Zobel, Johan van den Hoogen
  • ETH Zürich
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Geophysics Science Center
  • Stanford University
  • Princeton University
  • Federal University of Ceará – UFC
  • Qatar University
  • University of Jyväskylä
  • University of Vienna
  • Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)
  • University of Innsbruck
  • Nachusa Grasslands
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • US Army ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
  • Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • The University of Manchester
  • The University of Vermont
  • CEBAS-CSIC Department of Soil and Water Conservation Campus Universitario de Espinardo
  • Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
  • Telegrafenberg
  • Agroscope, Zurich
  • Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of São Paulo ESALQ/USP Av Pádua Dias 11
  • German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Greifswald
  • Sanima, Av. Grau 629, Barranco, Lima, Perú
  • Federal Research Center “Krasnoyarsk Science Center SB RAS”
  • UMR 1391 Interaction Soil Plant Atmosphere (ISPA)
  • CREA Research Center for Viticulture and Enology
  • Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences
  • Indiana University
  • University of New Hampshire
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Helsinki Finland
  • Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
  • University of Vigo
  • CONICET- Universidad Nacional del Comahue
  • Universidad de Alicante
  • University of Leipzig
  • University of Hohenheim
  • University of Tartu
  • Dhaka University, Bangladesh
  • BioTreaT GmbH
  • Toulouse INP
  • Functional Environmental Genomics
  • Jilin Agricultural University
  • University of Göttingen
  • Lancaster University
  • Viticulture
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
  • Microbiology Laboratories Australia
  • UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  • ICF
  • University of Kentucky
  • Valli Sustainability Research and Education Foundation
  • University of Leeds
  • Universidad de Jaén
  • Campus del Rio San Pedro
  • Lund University
  • Moncloa - Aravaca
  • University of Copenhagen
  • LECA
  • BOKU University
  • Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
  • University of Ulm
  • The University of New Mexico
  • Department of Plant and Soil Science
  • Units AB
  • University of Coimbra
  • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research University of Colorado
  • Hirosaki University
  • Colorado State University
  • Umea University
  • Southwest University, Chongqing
  • Northeast Normal University
  • University of South Carolina

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1568
JournalScientific data
Volume12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Sept 2025

Keywords

  • Databases, Factual
  • Ecosystem
  • Enzymes
  • Fatty Acids
  • Phospholipids
  • Soil
  • Soil Microbiology

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