fungaltraits aka funfun: a dynamic functional trait database for the world's fungi

How to cite the DB?

Please cite this database as:

Flores-Moreno, Habacuc, Treseder, Kathleen, K., , Cornwell, William, K., Maynard, Daniel S., Milo, Amy, M., Abarenkov, Kessy, Afkhami, Michelle, E., Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos, A., Bates, Scott, Bhatnagar, Jennifer, M., Busby, Posy, E., Christian, Natalie, Crowther, Thomas W., Floudas, Dimitri, Gazis, Romina, Hibbett, David, Kennedy, Peter, F., Lindner, Daniel, L., Nilsson, R. Henrik, Powell, Jeff, Schildhauer, Mark, Schilling, Jonathan, Zanne, Amy, E. 2019. fungaltraits aka funfun: a dynamic functional trait database for the world's fungi. Dataset: https://github.com/traitecoevo/fungaltraits. DOI

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How to use this package

Install the package

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropenscilabs/datastorr")
# devtools::install_github("traitecoevo/fungaltraits")
install.packages("fungaltraits", repos = c('https://traitecoevo.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))
library(fungaltraits)

Access the fungal traits database

fungal_traits()

This will download the data, and load it into R, and you're ready to do analyses. The meta-data associated with the data is in the zip file that can be downloaded here.

If you use this package in a published paper, please note the version number. This will allow others to reproduce your work later. There is a Zenodo DOI associated with each release, insuring that it will be stable in the future.

The current doi is DOI

That's it, really. Below is information about the data sources, how to contribute data and the versioned data distribution system (which we think is really cool), feel free to check it out, but you don't need to read the rest of this to use the package.

Collaboration with FUNGuild

funfun leverages the ecological guilds present in the FUNGuild dataset. Currently funfun collates the most common fungal guild at the genus level and matches it to each observation. As the end user wants different resolution a separate query to FUNGuild can be run.


Submission guidelines

Thank you for contributing to Funfun (a fungal functional trait database). Below you will find a simple set of instructions to contribute to this DB. For assistance or enquiries please contact funtothefun@gmail.com. Before submitting keep in mind that this a living, open access DB, which we think is pretty cool (i.e. it will update as taxonomy changes, more data get added, and errors are corrected, all this while preserving previous versions; free on all restrictions on access).

Essential information

It is essential that in your submission at least include the information below (if you prefer to fill-in some templates follow this link):

Note that comma-separated files (.csv) are the preferred format for these files.


Data sources

Funfun DB governance:

Endophytes:

Genes and Chemistry:

Guilds:

Mycorrhizae:

Pathogens:

Saprobes:

Taxonomy:

Database:

Notes for making a release using this living dataset design

This is for database maintainers

fungaltraits:::fungal_traits_release("<description>")

where "<description>" is a brief description of new features of the release.