A curated soil fungal dataset to advance fungal ecology and conservation research in Australia and Antarctica.

ABSTRACT: DNA metabarcoding has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of the diversity and function of soil-inhabiting fungi. The Australian Microbiome Initiative has produced an extensive soil fungal metabarcoding dataset of more than 2000 plots across a breadth of ecosystems in Australia and Antarctica. Sequence data requires rigorous approaches for the integration of species occurrences into biodiversity platforms, addressing biases due to false positives or overinflated diversity estimates, among others. To tackle such biases, we conducted a rigorous analysis of the fungal dataset following best practices in fungal metabarcoding and integrated it with over 100 predictor variables to fast-track data exploration. We carefully validated our methodology based on studies conducted on h

SUBMITTER: Florence L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868506 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature