Global fungal diversity. soil metagenome

This is a global dataset of unprecedented scope to disentangle the relative roles of climatic, edaphic, floristic, and spatial variables governing global-scale patterns of soil fungal diversity. We also address key macro-ecological phenomena such as latitudinal gradients of diversity and Rapoport’s rule (expansion of species’ latitudinal range with increasing latitude) as well as cross-biome and cross-continental biogeographic relationships in multiple phylogenetic and functional groups of fungi.