Foliar endophytic fungi of native Hawaiian plants

A phylogenetically diverse array of fungi live within healthy leaf tissue. Many studies have examined these endophytes within a single plant species and/or at small spatial scales, but landscape-scale variables that determine their community composition are not well understood, either across geographic space, across climatic conditions, or in the context of host plant phylogeny. Here, we evaluate the contributions of these variables to endophyte community composition using our survey of foliar endophytic fungi in native Hawaiian plants sampled across the Hawaiian archipelago. Sequences deposited here have been processed with ITSx, and contain only the ITS1 region.