Curated open-access fungi occurrence data for Australia

This dataset contains occurrence data for Fungi in the continent of Australia. Human observation and preserved specimen data are collected across six open-access repositories of biological records, and then subjected to a curation process removing erroneous or problematic entries and adding extra nomenclatural, taxonomic, and functional information. The R script for this curation process is also archived, and detailed description of the method and an exploratory overview of the dataset are provided in the accompanying manuscript: doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101097 We thank the Atlas of Living Australia, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, MycoPortal, iNaturalist, and Fungimap Inc. for making data available and all the collectors and observers who created the data we analysed.