Date (Publication)

2025-06-09

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9feab716-0642-4ab9-a363-d73d135a48b9

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/9feab716-0642-4ab9-a363-d73d135a48b9

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Robinson, S.J.B., Elias, D.M.O., Goodall, T., McNamara, N., Griffiths, R., Majalap, N., Sau Wai, Y., Ostle, N. (2025). Soil microbial communities, soil, environmental and forest structural properties across old-growth forest and naturally regenerating or actively restored selectively logged tropical forest in Sabah, Borneo, March 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9feab716-0642-4ab9-a363-d73d135a48b9

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Robinson, S.J.B.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Robinson, S.J.B.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Elias, D.M.O.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Goodall, T.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	McNamara, N.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Bangor University	Griffiths, R.	robert.griffiths@bangor.ac.uk	Author
Forest Research Centre, Sabah Forestry Department	Majalap, N.	noli.mj@gmail.com	Author
Universiti of Malaysia Sabah	Sau Wai, Y.	yapsauwai@gmail.com	Author
Lancaster University	Ostle, N.	n.ostle@lancaster.ac.uk	Author
Lancaster University		EMAIL NOT PROVIDED	Owner
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology		enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Owner
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keywords

• Biodiversity
• Land use
• Soil

• Sabah

• Malaysian Borneo

• soil microbes

• bacteria

• fungi

• ectomycorrhizal

• forest restoration

• forest rehabilitation

• soil properties

• selective logging

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, S.J.B., Elias, D.M.O., Goodall, T., McNamara, N., Griffiths, R., Majalap, N., Sau Wai, Y., Ostle, N. (2025). Soil microbial communities, soil, environmental and forest structural properties across old-growth forest and naturally regenerating or actively restored selectively logged tropical forest in Sabah, Borneo, March 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9feab716-0642-4ab9-a363-d73d135a48b9

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Language

English

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UTF8

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment

Begin date

2018-03-01

End date

2018-03-31

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator

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Comma-separated values (CSV)

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

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	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/9feab716-0642-4ab9-a363-d73d135a48b9.zip	Supporting information

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Statement

Soil samples and forest structural and environmental data were collected at nine sites during one campaign in March 2018 . Three sampling sites were chosen in each of three forest types of old-growth, naturally regenerating and actively restored logged forest. Old-growth forest was located in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, and logged forest sites were situated within the adjacent Innoprise Face Foundation Rainforest Rehabilitation Project (INFAPRO) area. A geospatial transect design was employed for soil sampling and measurement of microclimate variables at each site to assess variation in microbial communities over cm to m scales. This comprised three transects radiating out from one centre point positioned at 120 ° to one another. Sampling points were located at the centre point, then at increasing distances of 10 cm, 30 cm, 90 cm, 2.7 m, 8.4 m and 24.3 m along each transect relative to the centre. The circumferences of all tree stems with diameter at breast height (DBH) >5 cm within a 2.5 m buffer of all transects were recorded at each site for site-level calculation of stem density and basal area. Soil physicochemical properties were analysed at the Sabah Forest Research Centre, Sepilok. Organic layer soil microbial community data were generated by 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing at UKCEH Wallingford, and Phospholipid Fatty Acid (PLFA) analysis at Lancaster University in the UK. Fungal functional guild classifications were assigned to fungal sequences using the FUNGuild annotation tool. Alpha diversity indices for microbial groups and relative abundances of fungal guilds were generated after rarefying by minimum read counts for each group . Rates of spatial turnover in soil microbial taxa for different microbial groups were calculated using the distance decay approach via linear modelling.

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dataset

Date stamp

2026-01-09T12:56:43

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UK GEMINI

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2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact