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Rainforest Fungi of Tasmania and South East Australia
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This book was the first Australian fungi guide to concentrate on a specialised habitat, that being cool temperate rainforest. It features common, some rare species and new records (at the time of publication) of fungi in Tasmanian and SE Australian rainforest. The introductory text provides descriptions of their characteristics and classifications and the guide includes photographs and descriptive text to help identify some of the many fungi found during autumn and early winter. The book was the fore runner to the recent boom in interest in Tasmanian fungi. Unfortunately it is now out of print.
... The characteristics of the Lane Cove collections are all extremely si mil ar to those of previously published descriptions of this species and records show that it appears in both June and July. Fuhrer and Robinson (1992) between lamellae on the pileus undersurface, pale orange buff (4A4) and margins concolorous and even. Stipe 20-45 x 4-7 mm, very pale creamy brown (near 4A3), solid, dry, cylindrical but often bulbous at the base, smooth or usually coated with the white furfuraceous layer which slowly disappears on aging. ...
... Other Cleland collections of H. niveus have proven to be H. rodwayi which seems to be the most common of the two white taxa. The photograph supposedly of Camarophyllus niveus by Fuhrer and Robinson (1992) Pileus 13-30(-60) mm, at first elongated ellipsoid with margins adpressed to the stem, then rapidly expanding to conical but with the margins remaining more or less incurved, finally broadly conical with obtuse apex; immature colour very variable: red (10B8), orange (5A8) or yellow (3A7) (or mixtures of these colours and sometimes with greenish tints), often overlain with sooty black, eventually more or less black with only a few tints remaining of the previous colours; surface dry, smooth, and covered with radially adpressed, black fibrils; margins even to ragged and often paler than the pileal surface; frequently splitting radially. Pileal flesh very thin, similar to or slightly darker than the pileal cuticle colour directly above; stem flesh usually yellow (2A6). ...
... Similarly, isolates of Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. have survived for > 36 years in Pinus radiata plantations in Australia (Sawyer et al. 2001). Besides, it is now associated with Nothofagus forests in Tasmania and New Zealand, presumably as a consequence of its introduction with pines (Fuhrer and Robinson 1992). Therefore, these alien EM fungi may establish on native hosts where they could start to alter ecosystem functions by being pathogenic to the native plants (Johnson et al 1997) or by changing ecosystem properties (e.g. ...
Advances in ecological research during the last decades have led to an improved understanding of the impacts of alien species. Despite that, the effects of alien macrofungi have often received little attention and are still poorly understood. With the aim of reducing this knowledge gap, we compiled a database of the recorded socio-economic and environmental impacts of alien macrofungi. This database was compiled from all relevant sources we could identify, through an exhaustive literature review, considering the identity of known alien taxa and explicit indications of impacts of any kind. In total, 1440 records of both negative and positive impacts were collected for 374 distinct species in different regions of all continents, except Antarctica. The most frequently recorded impacts are related to the mutualistic interactions that these fungi can form with their host plants. In total 47.8% of all records refer to the indirect negative effect of these interactions, by facilitating the colonization of invasive plants, while 38.5% refer to their positive contribution to the growth of forestry species. Less frequently recorded negative impacts included ectomycorrhizal interactions with native plants, plant pathogenicity and human poisoning after ingestion. Additional positive impacts include the use as a food source by native species and human populations and commercial exploitation. Alien macrofungi are an increasingly prevalent component of human-dominated ecosystems, having a diverse array of negative and positive impacts on native biota and human population. Our database provided a first step towards the quantification and mapping of these impacts.
... The loss of suitable habitat due to the fires is likely to contribute to an increased threat level for many fungi, algae and bryophytes. South-eastern rainforest communities, widely considered to be cryptogamic biodiversity hotspots, particularly in the Victorian context, have been shown to harbour their own unique species of fungi (Fuhrer and Robinson 1992), lichens (Morley and Gibson 2004) and bryophytes (Worley 2007), and the loss of these non-fire adapted ecosystems is likely to result in a myriad of species extinctions. ...
The 2019–2020 Victorian bushfires have had wide-ranging impacts on the state’s biodiversity, including to populations of threatened species (DELWP 2020). There has been no formal assessment of the impacts to cryptogam species; namely the bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, hornworts), freshwater algae and fungi (including lichens).
A workshop was conducted on 12th March 2020 to prioritise conservation actions that are deemed necessary in the context of impacts to cryptogams caused by the fires. Actions have been identified as short-term and longer-term with consideration to threats and other factors, such as data deficiencies which hamper the ability to prioritise conservation actions.
A review of database information for the bushfire extent boundary revealed 52 bryophyte taxa that are state advisory listed and confirmed as having suitable habitat which was impacted. For other groups, the total number of all taxa (rare, threatened or otherwise) included 47 algae and 134 fungi / lichens. These have been ranked as high, medium or low priority to assist in formulating actions.
Actions proposed include recommendations for broader programs on cryptogam conservation, as well as targeted assessments of high priority species which have likely been impacted by the fires. We have made conservative estimates of investment required across all groups within the next 1–2 years of $892,000 with further investment required in 3–5 years of $888,000–1,279,000. This investment aims to provide a coordinated approach to better understand impacts to a very large number of cryptogam species caused by catastrophic bushfire events, climate change and associated threats. Shorter fire intervals is noted in particular as a likely substantial threat for many species. Such information is critical for achieving Victoria’s biodiversity management objectives.
... Since then, Podoserpula pusio has become a very popular fungus in introductory field guides for the Australasian region, in particular New Zealand and Australia, including Tasmania (Bougher & Syme, 1998;Fuhrer & Robinson, 1992;Shepherd & Totterdell, 1988;Stevenson, 1982;Willis, 1950;Young, 1982). In more recent years, Podoserpula has also been recorded from Madagascar (Buyck, 1997(Buyck, , 2008, Guiana and Chile (S. ...
Podoserpula miranda sp. nov. (Amylocorticiales) is described from an old Arillastrum gummifera stand in New Caledonia.
... was first described from New Zealand (Stevenson 1963). Horak (1990) reported that it was widespread and common in New Zealand and Fuhrer & Robinson (1992) recorded the species from Tasmanian rainforests. The first author has numerous collections of the species from Tasmania where it is widespread and common. ...
Four species of the Hygrophoraceae are described from Western Australia, Hygrocybe austrolutea A.M.Young, Hygrocybe firma (Berk. & Broome) Singer, Hygrocybe pratensis (Pers.: Fr.) Murrill and Hygrophorus involutus G. Stev. The records are new for Western Australia and Hygrocybe pratensis is a new record for Australia. The known biogeographical distribution of the species varies: endemic Australian (H. austrolutea), regional (H. involutus), pan-tropical (H. firma), world-wide (H. pratensis). Variations in taxonomically significant characters among geographical representatives are discussed for each species.
This Guide has been written to provide field naturalists and other citizen-scientists with a basic understanding of fungal survey techniques, outlining the basic steps to conducting a fungal survey under Australian conditions. The protocols were developed in consultation with mycologists and environmental managers, and field naturalist groups throughout Australia also provided input and suggestions. Other survey methods do exist, and the protocols listed here will not suit every project. This Guide aims to provide the minimum requirements for conducting a safe, enjoyable, and scientifically valid fungal survey. The intention is to provide an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide for non-specialists who, through volunteering their own time to investigate their local areas, can provide data that is incredibly valuable for this under-studied Kingdom. With support and encouragement to build slowly on their skills, high-quality data can be generated by non-specialists with nothing more than time, methodical discipline, and an eye for the detail and beauty of nature.
This 2008 publication (no longer available in print and now in revision) offers a key to all described 25 Phaeocollybia species from Pacific Northwest United States (California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon) and Canada (British Columbia). Detailed summary descriptions are accompanied by color photos depicting each species in the field, in the lab, and under the microscope. Discussions of global distribution, ecology, development, biology, taxonomy, and suspected phylogenetic relationships offer essential background information to those working within and outside the Pacific Northwest region.
The original images have been downsized and the book divided into three parts for easy downloading on ResearchGate. Part 1 (presented here) contains the covers and introductory matter, sections on distribution & ecology, development & biology, taxonomy & phylogeny, diagnostics, and the conspectus and keys to species. The acknowledgments, bibliography, and glossary conclude Part 1. Individual species descriptions are included in parts 2 & 3. A list of errata (part 4), still in preparation, will be uploaded to ResearchGate when completed.
DAR). *Author for correspondence. This work continues the process of documenting the macrofungi of Mt Wellington. Two earlier publications were concerned with the gilled and non-gilled Basidiomycota, respectively, excluding the sequestrate species. The present work deals with the non-sequestrate Ascomycota, of which 42 species were found on Mt Wellington.
A new species, Phaeocollybia graveolens, is described from Western Australia. In common with previously described Australian species of the genus it is found in association with eucalypts, especially Eucalyptus diversicolor (Karri) and Corymbia calophylla (Marri), and also with Allocasuarina decussata. The species has numerous clamp-connections indicating it belongs in Section Radicatae. It is the first species from this section to be recorded from Australia. Although northern hemisphere coniferous species are regarded as the usual symbionts for Phaeocollybia Heim (Redhead & Malloch, 1986), the genus has been found in Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea in association with other hosts such as the relict Gondwanan genus Nothofagus (Fuhrer & Robinson, 1992; Horak, 1973) and with Leptospermum and Eucalyptus (Horak, 1973; Rees & Wood, 1996).
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