Fig. 1

Geographic and taxonomic distribution of ITS1 fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from our contemporary Australian Microbiome dataset. Plot locations (n = 2,103) of Australian Microbiome samples collected from terrestrial biomes in eight ecoregions, with the number of samples per ecoregion in parenthesis: (a) continental Australia (n = 1,874), (b) Christmas Island (n = 8) and (c) Antarctica (n = 220). (d) OTU richness, sequence abundance, and sample prevalence of the top ten most OTU-rich fungal genera colour-coded by their primary guilds. (e) KRONA chart showing the taxonomic distribution of dominant fungal phyla, orders, and species; an interactive chart for all taxonomic groups and ranks is provided on figshare57.