Rarefied relative abundance data of soil bacterial 16S rDNA amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) merged from three studies [1-3] as previously reported [4].The ASV abundance table provided here is based on the previously published data (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3366252) and was compiled to analyze patterns of bacterial rarity across terrestrial biomes [5]. This repository consists of the following files:- meta-samples.csv Information on sample locations and additional variables (for units see Supplementary Information of reference [4], p.8)- meta-ASV.csv Sequences and their taxonomic assignment with confidence for highest taxonomic level (see reference [4]).- abundance-table.csv Table with relative abundance of rarefied counts (columns sum to one). The soil sample ids and ASV sequences are used as column and row indices, respectively. Dataset citation should refer to [4] and method reference to [5]. References[1] Bahram, Mohammad, Falk Hildebrand, Sofia K. Forslund, Jennifer L. Anderson, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Peter M. Bodegom, Johan Bengtsson-Palme, et al. 2018. "Structure and Function of the Global Topsoil Microbiome." Nature 560 (7717): 233–37. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0386-6.[2] Thompson, Luke R., Aaron R. Jex, Alexandra H. Campbell, Alexandra M. Linz, Allison Berry, Allison E. Williams, Alyssa Cochran, et al. 2017. "A Communal Catalogue Reveals Earth's Multiscale Microbial Diversity." Nature 551 (7681): 457–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24621.[3] Zhou, Jizhong, Ye Deng, Lina Shen, Chongqing Wen, Qingyun Yan, Daliang Ning, Yujia Qin, et al. 2016. "Temperature Mediates Continental-Scale Diversity of Microbes in Forest Soils." Nature Communications 7 (July): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12083.[4] Bickel, Samuel, Xi Chen, Andreas Papritz, and Dani Or. 2019. "A Hierarchy of Environmental Covariates Control the Global Biogeography of Soil Bacterial Richness." Scientific Reports 9 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48571-w.[5] Bickel, Samuel, and Dani Or. 2021. "The Chosen Few — Variations in Common and Rare Soil Bacteria across Biomes." The ISME Journal, May. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-00981-3.