Data for: Environmental responses of fruiting fungal communities are phylogenetically structured

Through their ephemeral reproductive structures (fruiting bodies), ectomycorrhizal forest soil fungi provide a resource for a plethora of organisms. Thus, resolving what biotic and abiotic factors determine the occurrence and abundance of fruiting bodies is fundamental for understanding the dynamics of forest trophic networks. While the influence of abiotic factors such as moisture and temperature on fungal fruiting are relatively well established, little is known about how these processes interact with the evolutionary history of fungal species to determine when, where, and in which abundance fungal fruiting bodies will emerge. A specific knowledge gap relates to whether species’ responses to their environment are phylogenetically structured. Here, we ask whether related fungal taxa respond similarly to climatic factors and forest habitat characteristics, and whether such correlated responses will affect the assembly of fungal fruiting communities. To resolve these questions, we fitted..., This dataset contains field transect data of fungal fruiting bodies, collected in 2016 and 2017. Likewise, it contains environmental data from the transect sites as well as a phylotree of the detected fungal taxa. Transect counts were used using achievable taxonomic resolution. After that, transect data was used to perform NMDS and JSDM (HMSC) analysis to determine the effects of phylogeny and environment on fungal fruiting.,