The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds

Aim
How community composition varies in space and what governs the variation has been extensively investigated in macroorganisms. However, we have only limited knowledge for microorganisms, especially fungi, despite their ecological and economic significance. Based on previous research, we define and test a series of hypotheses regarding the composition of fungal communities, its most influential drivers and their spatial scale dependence.
Location
Czech Republic.
Time period
Present.
Taxa studied
Fungi.
Methods
We analyzed the distance decay relationships, community composition and its drivers (physical distance, litter and soil chemistry, tree composition, climate) in fungi, using multivariate analyses. We compared the results across three fungal ecological guilds (ectomycorrhizal fungi, saprotrophs and yeasts), two forest microhabitats (litter and bulk soil) and six spatial scales (from 5 m to 80 km) that comprehensively cover the Czech Republic.
Results
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## Description of the Data and file structure

The zipped file in Dryad contains the data necessary to reproduce the statistical analyses published in the manuscript \"The spatial patterns of community composition, their environmental drivers and their spatial scale dependence vary markedly between fungal ecological guilds\" in Global Ecology and Biogeography by Odriozola et al.

To run the R code in Zenodo, the zip containing the dataset should be unzipped to a folder and set that folder as working directory in the beginning of the script.

The four datasets in the folder \"Odriozola\_etal\_2023\_data\":

**OTU\_table.csv**: Sequence counts of Operational Taxonomic Units of fungi collected in six datasets representing different spatial scales across the Czech Republic.

**Environment.csv**: Environmental variables measure...