GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies.

ABSTRACT: Fungi are key players in vital ecosystem services, spanning carbon cycling, decomposition, symbiotic associations with cultivated and wild plants and pathogenicity. The high importance of fungi in ecosystem processes contrasts with the incompleteness of our understanding of the patterns of fungal biogeography and the environmental factors that drive those patterns. To reduce this gap of knowledge, we collected and validated data published on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface at https://globalfungi.com . The GlobalFungi database contains over 600 million observations of fungal sequences across > 17 000 samples with geographical locations and additional

SUBMITTER: Vetrovsky T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7359306 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature