Data on the fungal species consumed by mammal species in Australia

The data reported here support the manuscript Nuske et al. (2017) [1]. Searches were made for quantitative data on the occurrence of fungi within dietary studies of Australian mammal species. The original location reported in each study was used as the lowest grouping variable within the dataset. To standardise the data and compare dispersal events from populations of different mammal species that might overlap, data from locations were further pooled and averaged across sites if they occurred within 100 km of a random central point. Three locations in Australia contained data on several (>7) mycophagous mammals, all other locations had data on 1–3 mammal species. Within these three locations, the identity of the fungi species was compared between mammal species’ diets. A list of all fungi species found in Australian mammalian diets is also provide along with the original reference and fungal synonym names.


a b s t r a c t
The data reported here support the manuscript Nuske et al. (2017) [1]. Searches were made for quantitative data on the occurrence of fungi within dietary studies of Australian mammal species. The original location reported in each study was used as the lowest grouping variable within the dataset. To standardise the data and compare dispersal events from populations of different mammal species that might overlap, data from locations were further pooled and averaged across sites if they occurred within 100 km of a random central point. Three locations in Australia contained data on several ( 47) mycophagous mammals, all other locations had data on 1-3 mammal species. Within these three locations, the identity of the fungi species was compared between mammal species' diets. A list of all fungi species found in Australian mammalian diets is also provide along with the original reference and fungal synonym names.

Data accessibility
Summarized data are available with this article. All data are from published articles or from unpublished data outlined in Nuske et al. [1].

Value of the data
This data shows the differences in dietary fungal species of different mammals and hence their relative contribution to the dispersal of these species. Future studies can confirm these trends with targeted sampling of both mammalian fungal specialists and generalists.
This data lists fungal species which only occur in endangered Bettongia tropica and Potorous longipes diets; further studies can target these species to confirm whether the absence of fungal specialists results in lower dispersal rates.
Further studies can also target the listed fungal species in the data for the development of genetic markers or reference libraries to study gene flow and population genetic diversity in relation to different dispersal modes.

Experimental design, materials and methods
Data were gathered from literature (references in Table 4). Methods for the development of the selection criteria for including the data is outlined in Nuske et al. [1]. Briefly, dietary studies of Australian mammals were searched from Web of Science and Google Scholar. Relevant theses Table 1 Fungal species consumed by mammal species in North Queensland on the Atherton Tablelands. The first letter in parentheses after the fungal taxa name refers to whether the taxa are truffle-like (y), not truffle-like (n), or with taxa either truffle-like or not truffle-like (n/y). The second letter refers to whether the taxa are ectomycorrhizal (y), putatively ectomycorrhizal (y?), arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM), has other functional modes (n) or has unknown functional modes (?). These values are applied to the genera as a whole and/or species listed under a genus, unless otherwise specified. Fungal taxon names in bold are only in the diet of the fungal specialist, Northern Bettong (Bettongia tropica).

Fungal taxa
Bettongia tropica and books were searched also. Because fungal spores are smaller than many other common dietary materials and spores are needed for identification of fungal taxa consumed, only studies that used conservative methods for collecting and examining dietary material were used in the dataset. Specially, these methods were the examination of fine fraction material (no material discarded), the use of 100 Â or greater magnification, and spores must have been identified by use of mycological literature and/or a mycological expert. For each data point in each study, the location of the study was used as the lowest grouping variable. Data across studies were compared by pooling data together if they occurred within 100 km from a random central point. In comparisons, fungal names included both formally published and as yet unpublished names, identified at least to genus (value ¼1 in 'Cf' column of Table 4), but not taxa in the form 'Unknown sp. 1' that were not identified to at least genus level (value ¼0) nor a few taxa (such as Endoptychum sp.) that could not be equated to modern genera.    Sphaerodes beatonii (n, n)