The authors analyzed a total of 3,002,411 quality-filtered bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences in the 48 technical replicates across 8 revegetation chronosequence sites, consisting of 3,316 OTUs. Nine bacterial phyla dominated this dataset, including Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, Gemmatimonadetes, Planctomycetes, Proteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia.The OTU data provide information on bacterial flux at this restoration site through a stagger of years and can be used accordingly.
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. The authors thank A. Bissett, A. Fitzgerald, A. Young, Z. Baruch, S. Caddy-Retalic, L. Clarke, S. Kennedy, I. Fox, M. Laws, K. McCallum, and J. McDonald for technical and field assistance. We are grateful for technical, field and site access support from the Australian Genome Research Facility, BioPlatforms Australia, SA Water and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. This work was supported by Australian Research Council funding to AJL and MFB (DE150100542; DP150103414).
Purpose
This project forms part of the authors PhD. The OTU data was generated for a manuscript in Molecular Ecology "Revegetation rewilds the soil bacterial microbiome of an old field"
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14081 that uses eDNA assessment to provide a significant extension to current restoration monitoring practice.