Source data for Epichloë bromicola-associated growth advantages are decoupled from consistent soil microbiome shifts in Hordeum bogdanii across contrasting field sites

This dataset accompanies the manuscript entitled “Epichloë bromicola-associated growth advantages are decoupled from consistent soil microbiome shifts in Hordeum bogdanii across contrasting field sites.” It contains plot-level plant growth data, archived soil physical measurements, descriptive pre-planting site baselines, multiplicity-adjusted statistical results for microbial biomass and alpha diversity, and PERMDISP outputs.

Low- and high-salinity backgrounds represent two natural field sites rather than replicated experimental salinity treatments. Approximate soil pH values reconstructed from a supplied figure are isolated in a separate worksheet and are not raw plot-level observations. The dataset does not include raw PacBio sequence reads.