CLIMUSH: ITS Sequencing of North American Mycobiome
To better understand the ecological factors impacting the distributions of macrofungi across North America, we sampled aerial fungal spore communities from a shared set of habitats and fire histories at 8 NSF LTER research sites. Litter, soil, and leaf/root/seed endophytes were collected over two years in grassland, conifer, and oak-dominated habitats with and without recent fires and then sequenced using ITS1 high-throughput sequencing.