Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei and soil properties within a 300-cm deep profile

This dataset has been collected thanks to the long-term partnership with Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM), Lao PDR, which granted the permission for field access, and to the financial, scientific, technical, and/or logistical support of the Multiscale TROPIcal CatchmentS (SNO M-TROPICS; mtropics.obs-mip.fr/) critical zone observatory (previously MSEC). This .csv dataset includes Burkholderia pseudomallei concentrations (CFU g-1) within a 300-cm soil profile, along with physico-chemical parameters: soil texture, i.e. clay < 2 μm, silt 2–50 μm, sand 50–2000 μm (%); pH (-); organic matter content (%); bulk density (1000 kg m-3); total porosity (100(1-BD/2.65)) considering a real density value of 2.65 (%); groundwater persistence rate (%); saturated hydraulic conductivity (mm h-1); soil water content (m3 m-3); exchangeable cations (Ca2+, Mg2+, K+, and Na+; meq 100 g-1); and soil elemental concentrations (Fe, Mn, Mg, Ca, K, Na, Al, Si, Ti, and S; ppm).

The authors acknowledge financial support from French national grant CNRS/INSU EC2CO-Biohefect/Ecodyn//Dril/MicrobiEen(BurLuMic) and the IRD International Joint Laboratory LUSES. Essential support with microbiological analyses was provided by the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust-Research Unit (LOMWRU), Vientiane, Lao PDR, funded by the Wellcome Trust [Grant number 106698/Z/14/Z]. The Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR facilitated access to the field and provided invaluable support with soil analyses.