READ ME File For 'Dataset for Marine Fungal Traits: Towards a Functional Understanding of Pelagic Fungal Ecology'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D3314

ReadMe Author: POPPY DIVER, University of Southampton ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9949-8392

This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'Marine Fungal Traits: Towards a Functional Understanding of Pelagic Fungal Ecology'
AWARDED BY: Univeristy of Southampton
DATE OF AWARD: 2024

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
This data was collected/created through field sampling and laboratory experiments.
Data and samples were initially collected as part of RRS Discovery Cruise DY103, June-July 2019.
Environmental samples were processed at the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth UK.
Environmental fungal isolates were characterised through laboratory growth experiments.
No specialist software is needed to view the data.

This dataset contains:
An excel spreadsheet consisting of 34 data sheets, labelled with reference to specific figure numbers in the research thesis.

Date of data collection: 2019-2024

Information about geographic location of data collection:
Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory, North-East Atlantic Ocean, 48°50’N 16°30’W
The Marine Biological Association, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK

Licence:
CC-BY

Related projects/Funders:
Natural Environment Research Council INSPIRE Doctoral Training Partnership [grant number NE/S007210/1]
European Research Council project MYCO-CARB [grant number 772584]

Related publication:
Diver, P., Ward, B.A. and Cunliffe, M. (2024) Physiological and morphological plasticity in response to nitrogen availability of a yeast widely distributed in the open ocean. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae053
Diver, P., Ward, B.A. and Cunliffe, M. (2024) Cell morphological plasticity in response to substrate availability of a cosmopolitan polymorphic yeast from the open ocean. Mycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2024.2418784

Date that the file was created: December, 2024

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