Subarctic below-ground plant-associated microbial communities in natural and mining disturbed sites, Canada Raw sequence reads
The restoration of mining-impacted forests in the subarctic relies heavily on the establishment of resilient self-sustaining native plants and their associated microbial communities. Accordingly, the goal of this study was to investigate the influence of metal mining on the below-ground microbial communities associated with black spruce (Picea mariana). We collected soil, rhizosphere and plant root samples from mining disturbed and natural environments to investigate the microbial community response to mining disturbance