Richness and abundance of plant and animal pathogenic fungi in Patagonian, sub-Antarctic and Maritime Antarctic soil samples collected January-February 2018

57 soil samples were collected from 12 sites across Patagonia, the sub-Antarctic and the Maritime Antarctic between January and February 2018. The dataset presented here comprises two tables. The first shows the numbers of DNA reads of 105 genera of plant or animal pathogenic fungi in the soil samples. In the second table, for each of the 57 soil samples, seven bioclimatic variable predictors, six measures of soil chemistry, the total number of fungi reads and plant and animal pathogen richness and abundance are given, as well as the relative abundance of each fungal genus in each sample. The data in this second table were inputted into LASSO regression models and species indicator analyses. This research was jointly funded by the NERC-CONICYT award (NE/P003079/1 and PII20150126, respectively) and Danish National Research Foundation award (VOLT, DNRF 168).