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Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

  • Otso Ovaskainen (Corresponding author)
  • , Nerea Abrego
  • , Brendan Furneaux
  • , Bess Hardwick
  • , Panu Somervuo
  • , Isabella Palorinne
  • , Nigel R. Andrew
  • , Ulyana V. Babiy
  • , Tan Bao
  • , Gisela Bazzano
  • , Svetlana N. Bondarchuk
  • , Timothy C. Bonebrake
  • , Georgina L. Brennan
  • , Syndonia Bret-Harte
  • , Claus Bässler
  • , Luciano Cagnolo
  • , Erin K. Cameron
  • , Elodie Chapurlat
  • , Simon Creer
  • , Luigi P. D’Acqui
  • Natasha de Vere, Marie Laure Desprez-Loustau, Michel A.K. Dongmo, Ida B. Dyrholm Jacobsen, Brian L. Fisher, Miguel Flores de Jesus, Gregory S. Gilbert, Gareth W. Griffith, Anna A. Gritsuk, Andrin Gross, Håkan Grudd, Panu Halme, Rachid Hanna, Jannik Hansen, Lars Holst Hansen, Apollon D.M.T. Hegbe, Sarah Hill, Ian D. Hogg, Jenni Hultman, Kevin D. Hyde, Nicole A. Hynson, Natalia Ivanova, Petteri Karisto, Deirdre Kerdraon, Anastasia Knorre, Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber, Juri Kurhinen, Masha Kuzmina, Nicolas Lecomte, Erin Lecomte, Viviana Loaiza, Erik Lundin, Alexander Meire, Armin Mešić, Otto Miettinen, Norman Monkhause, Peter Mortimer, Jörg Müller, R. Henrik Nilsson, Puani Yannick C. Nonti, Jenni Nordén, Björn Nordén, Claudia Paz, Petri Pellikka, Danilo Pereira, Geoff Petch, Juha Matti Pitkänen, Flavius Popa, Caitlin Potter, Jenna Purhonen, Sanna Pätsi, Abdullah Rafiq, Dimby Raharinjanahary, Niklas Rakos, Achala R. Rathnayaka, Katrine Raundrup, Yury A. Rebriev, Jouko Rikkinen, Hanna M.K. Rogers, Andrey Rogovsky, Yuri Rozhkov, Kadri Runnel, Annika Saarto, Anton Savchenko, Markus Schlegel, Niels Martin Schmidt, Sebastian Seibold, Carsten Skjøth, Elisa Stengel, Svetlana V. Sutyrina, Ilkka Syvänperä, Leho Tedersoo, Jebidiah Timm, Laura Tipton, Hirokazu Toju, Maria Uscka-Perzanowska, Michelle van der Bank, F. Herman van der Bank, Bryan Vandenbrink, Stefano Ventura, Solvi R. Vignisson, Xiaoyang Wang, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Subodini N. Wijesinghe, S. Joseph Wright, Chunyan Yang, Nourou S. Yorou, Amanda Young, Douglas W. Yu, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Paul D.N. Hebert, Tomas Roslin

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Abstract

Novel methods for sampling and characterizing biodiversity hold great promise for re-evaluating patterns of life across the planet. The sampling of airborne spores with a cyclone sampler, and the sequencing of their DNA, have been suggested as an efficient and well-calibrated tool for surveying fungal diversity across various environments. Here we present data originating from the Global Spore Sampling Project, comprising 2,768 samples collected during two years at 47 outdoor locations across the world. Each sample represents fungal DNA extracted from 24 m3 of air. We applied a conservative bioinformatics pipeline that filtered out sequences that did not show strong evidence of representing a fungal species. The pipeline yielded 27,954 species-level operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Each OTU is accompanied by a probabilistic taxonomic classification, validated through comparison with expert evaluations. To examine the potential of the data for ecological analyses, we partitioned the variation in species distributions into spatial and seasonal components, showing a strong effect of the annual mean temperature on community composition.

Original languageEnglish
Article number561
Number of pages17
JournalScientific Data
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 May 2024

Funding

We acknowledge Hanna Aho, Julian Frietsch, Tuomas Kankaanp\u00E4\u00E4, Janne Koskinen, Terrance McDermott, Evgeniy Meyke, Mwadime Mjomba, Pascal A. Niklaus, T\u00E4he Helk Rosenvald, Gilles Saint-Jean, Mikko Tiusanen, Helena Wirta, Veronika Zengerer, and several UCSC students for their contributions in data sampling and for many kinds of technical assistance. This study was supported by funding from Academy of Finland (grant no. 336212, 345110, 322266, 335354), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 856506; ERC-synergy project LIFEPLAN), EU Horizon 2020 project INTERACT, under grant agreements no. 730938 and 871120, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Funding Scheme (223257), Estonian Research Council (grant no. PRG1170, PRG632), FORMAS (grant no. 215-2011-498, 226-2014-1109), Polar Knowledge Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Discovery grant to NL), Bruce McDonald, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) U.K. (grant no. NE/N001710/1, NE/N002431/1), BBSRC (grant no. BB/L012286/1), Novo Nordisk Foundation (Project ID NNF22OC0071701), Austrian ministry of Science (the ABOL-HRSM project), municipality of Vienna (division Environmental protection), the Southern Scientific Centre RAS (project no. 122020100332-8), the Croatian Science Foundation under the project FunMed (grant no. HRZZ-IP-2022-10-5219), the US National Science Foundation (grant no. DEB-1655896, DEB-1655076, DEB-1932467), the Pepper-Giberson Chair Fund, the National Science Foundation of China (grant no. 41761144055, 41771063), Dirigibile Italia Station, Institute of Polar Science (ISP) - National Research Council (CNR), S\u00E3o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP 2016/25197-0) and Legado das \u00C1guas-Brazil, Hong Kong\u2019s Research Grants Council (General Research Fund 17118317), the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), the Canada Research Chair program, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, the Mushroom Research Foundation (MRF), Thailand, the Swedish Research Council\u2019s support (grant no. 4.3-2021-00164) to SITES and Abisko Scientific Research Station, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, and the Italian National Biodiversity Future Center (MUR-PNRR, Mission 4.2. Investment 1.4, Project CN00000033).

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 106024 Mycology

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