Data from "Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands"

Data from "Maestre, F. T., M. Delgado-Baquerizo, M., T. C. Jeffries, V. Ochoa, B. Gozalo, D. J. Eldridge, J. L. Quero, M. García-Gómez, A. Gallardo, W. Ulrich, M. A. Bowker, T. Arredondo, C. Barraza, D. Bran, A. Florentino, J. Gaitán, J. R. Gutiérrez, E. Huber-Sannwald, M. Jankju, R. L. Mau, M. Miriti, K. Naseri, A. Ospina, I. Stavi, D. Wang, N. N. Woods, X. Yuan, E. Zaady & B. K. Singh. Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516684112"

There are two spreadsheets with data. The spreadsheet "Data" contains the data used in the different analyses presented in the article. The spreadsheet "Metadata" contains the associated metadata, where a description of all the variables and units can be found.