857b3cc7c9647931d4837524162a19cf English dataset Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Data Manager Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk pointOfContact 2024-12-02 MEDIN Discovery metadata standard 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 Data associated with 'A 17-year time-series of fungal environmental DNA from a coastal marine ecosystem reveals long-term seasonal-scale and inter-annual diversity patterns' 2023-03-02 publication DASSHDT00000520 http://www.dassh.ac.uk/ Dataset associated with the published article: Chrismas Nathan, Allen Ro, Allen Michael J., Bird Kimberley and Cunliffe Michael 2023. A 17-year time-series of fungal environmental DNA from a coastal marine ecosystem reveals long-term seasonal-scale and inter-annual diversity patterns. Proc. R. Soc. B.2902022212920222129. Changing patterns in diversity are a feature of many habitats, with seasonality a major driver of ecosystem structure and function. In coastal marine plankton-based ecosystems, seasonality has been established through long-term time-series of bacterioplankton and protists. Alongside these groups, fungi also inhabit coastal marine ecosystems. If and how marine fungi show long-term intra- and inter-annual diversity patterns is unknown, preventing a comprehensive understanding of marine fungal ecology. Here, we use a 17-year environmental DNA time-series from the English Channel to determine long-term marine fungal diversity patterns. We show that fungal community structure progresses at seasonal and monthly scales and is only weakly related to environmental parameters. Communities restructured every 52-weeks suggesting long-term stability in diversity patterns. Some major marine fungal genera have clear inter-annual recurrence patterns, re-appearing in the annual cycle at the same period. Low relative abundance taxa that are likely non-marine show seasonal input to the coastal marine ecosystem suggesting land–sea exchange regularly takes place. Our results demonstrate long-term intra- and inter-annual marine fungal diversity patterns. We anticipate this study could form the basis for better understanding the ecology of marine fungi and how they fit in the structure and function of the wider coastal marine ecosystem. Nathan Christmas Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk originator Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Data Manager Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Text or Plaintext Delimited Marine Environmental Data and Information Network NDGO0005 Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-01-06 revision Molecular biology parameters SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary 2009-11-16 revision CC-BY 4.0 otherRestrictions Open Access English biota Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas 2009-06-18 creation Western Channel and Celtic Sea -4.2222 -4.2222 50.2500 50.2500 2002-01-01 2018-12-31 Chrismas N, Allen R, Allen MJ, Bird K, Cunliffe M. A 17-year time-series of fungal environmental DNA from a coastal marine ecosystem reveals long-term seasonal-scale and inter-annual diversity patterns. Proc Biol Sci. 2023 Feb 8;290(1992):20222129. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2129. Epub 2023 Feb 1. PMID: 36722076; PMCID: PMC9890122. Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Data Manager Citadel Hill Plymouth PL1 2PB dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk distributor http://doi.org/10.17031/6530ebf28a2e7 DOI link A link to the web service or dataset http://www.dassh.ac.uk DASSH website A link to the general host site dataset These data were collected for the research in the cited paper.