The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved insights of the fungal diversity in all ecosystems and habitats. Yet, in spite of the progress of molecular methods, knowledge about functional properties of the fungal taxa is vague and interpretation of environmental studies in an ecologically meaningful manner remains challenging. In order to facilitate functional assignments and ecological interpretation of environmental studies we introduce a user friendly traits and character database FungalTraits operating at genus and species hypothesis levels. Combining the information from previous efforts such as FUNGuild and Fun^Fun together with involvement of expert knowledge, we reannotated 10,210 and 151 fungal and Stramenopila genera, respectively. This resulted in a stand-alone spreadsheet dataset covering 17 lifestyle related traits of fungal and Stramenopila genera, designed for rapid functional assignments of environmental studies. In order to assign the trait states to fungal species hypotheses, the scientific community of experts manually categorised and assigned available trait information to 697,413 fungal ITS sequences. On the basis of those sequences we were able to summarise trait and host information into 92,623 fungal species hypotheses at 1% dissimilarity threshold.

大多数真菌的神秘生活方式需要在环境研究中对行会进行分子鉴定。在过去的几十年中，分子工具的快速发展和价格可承受性极大地改善了对所有生态系统和生境中真菌多样性的认识。然而，尽管分子方法取得了进步，但有关真菌类群功能特性的知识仍然模糊不清，以生态学上有意义的方式解释环境研究仍然具有挑战性。为了促进环境研究的功能分配和生态学解释，我们引入了用户友好的性状和特征数据库FungalTraits，它们在属和种假设的水平上运行。结合以前的工作（如Funguild和Fun ^{Fun）获得的信息}加上专家知识的参与，我们分别对10,210和151种真菌和Stramenopila属进行了重新注释。这产生了一个独立的电子表格数据集，涵盖了真菌和Stramenopila属的17种与生活方式有关的特征，旨在快速进行环境研究的功能分配。为了将特征状态分配给真菌物种假设，专家科学界对697,413真菌ITS序列进行了手动分类，并将可用的特征信息分配给了真菌ITS序列。基于这些序列，我们能够将性状和寄主信息汇总到92,623个真菌物种假设中，相异度阈值为1％。