Project description:Metagenome data from soil samples were collected at 0 to 10cm deep from 2 avocado orchards in Channybearup, Western Australia, in 2024. Amplicon sequence variant (ASV) tables were constructed based on the DADA2 pipeline with default parameters.
Project description:We tested whether home field advantage at inter- and intra-specific levels alters microbial carbon transformations, using a multi-factorial design with microcosms of freshwater submerged leaf litter from two species (Alder and Hemlock) exposed to 'home' or 'away' communities of microbes isolated from decomposing leaf litter, as well as controls with no microbial community added. For all 'home', 'away' and control conditions for each species we also had high or low oxygen treatments. Samples were taken at day 0, 154, 257 and 354 and extracted with solid phase columns and methanol to provide extracted metabolites.