Ecological Implications of Primary and Secondary Dispersal of Fungi by Vertebrates - Dataset

This data was collected for the thesis and all of the data has appeared in the chapters and/or in published papers. The data includes dietary data collected from scat analysis, R script, literature review, and fieldwork. Data collected from scat analysis was done through trapping of animals, analysis of stomach contents from museums or analysis of scats collected after being deposited. Animals were captured using standard live trapping protocols. Samples were then preserved in alcohol and analysed under 400 x magnification. Dietary components were identified using microscopic characters. Animals examined in this portion of the study were sourced from Australia, New Guinea, Indonisia, Turkey, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon. For full details of these methods see: chapters 3, 4, 5 & 8. This data includes notes from fieldwork. Literature review data was collected by systematically reviewing literature written in more than 5 languages. This includes searching relevant journals and databases. Several different libraries were used to source the references and these were compiled into three global review papers on the global importance of associations between vertebrates and fungi. For full details relevant to each review they can be accesed in published form or they can be found in chapters 2, 6 & 7. The R script is relevant to Chapter 5 and it provides the script that estimates the spore dispersal potential of dingoes based on scat analysis data collected in New England National Park and in Cathedral Rock National park.

本数据集为支撑学位论文研究采集所得，所有数据均已刊载于论文相关章节及已发表学术论文中。数据集涵盖通过粪便分析（scat analysis）采集的饮食数据、R脚本、文献综述数据及野外调查数据。其中粪便分析相关数据通过以下方式获取：对动物实施标准活体诱捕规程捕获个体、分析博物馆馆藏标本的胃容物，或是对已排出的粪便样本开展检测。捕获后的样本以酒精保存，并在400倍放大倍率下进行分析，饮食组分通过显微特征进行鉴定。本研究涉及的动物样本采集自澳大利亚、新几内亚、印度尼西亚、土耳其、刚果民主共和国及喀麦隆，相关实验方法的完整细节可参见论文第3、4、5及8章，本数据集包含野外调查原始记录。文献综述数据通过系统检索超过5种语言的相关学术文献采集所得，涵盖对各类相关期刊及数据库的检索工作。研究依托多家馆藏机构获取参考文献，最终整理完成三篇关于脊椎动物与真菌关联全球重要性的全球性综述论文，各综述的完整细节可通过已发表文献查阅，或参见论文第2、6及7章。本数据集附带的R脚本对应论文第5章内容，该脚本基于在新英格兰国家公园与大教堂岩国家公园采集的粪便分析数据，估算澳洲野犬的孢子传播潜力。