Code to reproduce the analyses of "Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning"

In this paper, we combined observational and manipulative experiments to analyse how fungal biodiversity responds to and mediates the impacts of drying on two key ecosystem processes: organic matter decomposition and fungal biomass accrual. Our observational dataset consists of fungal biodiversity and ecosystem processes from 15 streams spanning a natural gradient of flow intermittence. Our manipulative design evaluates the responses of ecosystem processes to two fungal richness levels crossed with three levels of drying.

This code re-creates analysis of the field and experimental data

Original article:

Please, use this citation to reference the database:

Arias-Real, R., Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Muñoz, I., Pascoal, P., Menéndez, M.
Fungal Biodiversity Mediates the Effects of Drying on Freshwater Ecosystem Functioning. 
Ecosystems (accepted)

R files description:

• field_data_def.R: R script to conduct analyses for field data (including responses of alpha diversity, beta-diversity and SEMs exploring direct and indirect drying effects)
• experiment_def.R: R script to conduct analyses for manipulative experimental data
• fungi_dat.txt: Field dataset including environmental data, drying characteristics, alpha diversity and ecosystem processes
• fungal_spp: Fungal community (species names are not provided)
• experimental_dat.txt: Experimental data, including treatments and ecosystem processes
• experimental_dat.txt: Mean experimental data across replicates, including treatments and ecosystem processes

Please, send questions or problems related with the use of this code to Rebeca Arias-Real (rebeca.arias.real@gmail.com) 
or Cayetano Gutiérrez-Cánovas (cayeguti@um.es).