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Contrasting energetic pathways and successional trajectories of soil food webs in natural succession and reforestation-based restoration Ajuan Zhang (20198367) Chengwei Tu (15594476) Jan Frouz (487243) Ruyi Luo (15397130) Lu Wang (45927) Pang, Xueyong (21267476) Nico Eisenhauer (174912) Anton M. Potapov (6310723) Terrestrial ecology Ecosystem functions Energy channels Forest restoration Soil animal biomass Soil micro-food web Soil macro-food web <p dir="ltr">The dataset contains the raw and processed data, and the R script, used in the manuscript entitled "Contrasting energetic pathways and successional trajectories of soil food webs in natural succession and reforestation-based restoration." Data were collected in southwestern China from sites representing two restoration pathways, natural succession and reforestation, across four restoration ages (30, 40, 50 and 80 years), with a primary forest included as a reference. The dataset covers soil fauna spanning a broad range of body sizes, including free-living soil nematodes, microarthropods and macrofauna, together with associated litter, soil and microbial variables.</p><p dir="ltr">The dataset is structured across five files:</p><p dir="ltr">RegressionEquation_BodymassCalculate.xlsx contains the regression equations used to estimate soil animals' body mass.</p><p dir="ltr">Dataset - Soil food-web fluxes calculation.xlsx provides, for every plot (including the primary forest reference, PR200), the density, biomass, body size, and feeding/protection traits of soil nematodes, microarthropods and macrofauna, together with their metabolic rate data — all information needed for soil food-web reconstruction and energy-flux calculation (see the accompanying "metadata." sheets within the workbook for a full description of every column).</p><p dir="ltr">R code - Soil food-web fluxes calculation.R contains the R code used to reconstruct the soil food webs from the Dataset file above and to calculate the resulting energy fluxes, trophic levels, and food-web figures.</p><p dir="ltr">Environmental variables_22102024.xlsx contains the abiotic soil (temperature, moisture, bulk density, pH, total and available nutrients), litter (biomass, C:N ratio, lignin, cellulose) and microbial (PLFA-based biomass, fungal-to-bacterial ratio) variables measured across the natural succession and reforestation restoration gradients, including the primary forest reference (see the accompanying "ReadMe" sheet for a full description of every variable).</p><p dir="ltr">All energy flux analysis data.xlsx contains the plot-level total energy flux, flux-to-biomass and flux-to-richness ratios, and the functional (e.g. herbivory, predation, fungivory) and size-class (micro- vs. macro-food web) flux summaries derived from the reconstructed food webs, including the primary forest reference, corresponding to the manuscript's figures.</p> 2026-09-15T17:24:34Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.31750624.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Contrasting_energetic_pathways_and_successional_trajectories_of_soil_food_webs_in_natural_succession_and_reforestation-based_restoration/31750624 CC BY 4.0