Table 1 List of metadata contained in the GlobalFungi database.

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

Metadata identifier

Unit

Description of content

Source

Sample ID

 

unique identifier

generated

Longitude

degrees

Geographical longitude

original paper

Latitude

degrees

Geographical latitude

original paper

Continent

 

One of the following: Africa/Antarctica/Asia/Australia/Europe/North America/South America

original paper

Sample type

 

One of the following: soil/rhizosphere soil/litter/litter + humus/deadwood/lichen/shoot/root

original paper

Biome

 

One of the following: forest biome/woodland biome/shrubland biome/grassland biome/desert biome/tundra biome/mangrove biome/anthropogenic terrestrial biome/marine biome/freshwater biome/polar desert biome

original paper

Sampling year

 

Year of sample collection

original paper

Primers

 

Primers used

original paper

pH

 

pH

original paper

ITS total

 

Number of full ITS sequences extracted

generated

MAT (°C)

°C

Mean annual temperature from CHELSA database

CHELSA

MAP (mm)

mm

Mean annual precipitation from CHELSA database

CHELSA

  1. The table lists identifiers, units and sources of metadata contained in the database with the description of their content. The data source “original paper” may also represent additional metadata provided by the authors of the paper.
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