Belowground communities, soil and environmental properties across human-modified tropical forest landscapes in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

This series is for data on belowground biodiversity (primarily soil microbes and plants) from amplicon sequencing of soil, root and litter samples collected across old-growth, selectively logged and restored forest and oil palm plantation across the Malaysian state of Sabah, Borneo between March 2016 and March 2018. It also contains associated data on soil physicochemical properties and environmental characteristics corresponding to surveys.

Data to be included here were collected and generated as part of several Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded programmes and projects: NERC Human Modified Tropical Forests (HMTF) Programme - Biodiversity and Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium [NE/K016253/1]; ENVISION Doctoral Training Scheme [NE/L002604/1]; NC International Programme [NE/X006247/1]; Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks between root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning [NE/M004864/1].