Neale L. Bougher's research while affiliated with Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia) and other places

... The species are ecologically important because most are considered to be mycorrhizal with woody plants, whilst they are important economically because some species are edible whilst others are poisonous (Cui et al. 2018). The genus has been monographed in Australia by Reid (1980) and Wood (1997), whilst additional mushroom species have been described and taxonomic clarifications made by Miller (1991Miller ( , 1992, Grgurinovic (1997), Davison (2011), , Davison et al. (2013Davison et al. ( , 2015Davison et al. ( , 2017aDavison et al. ( , 2017bDavison et al. ( , 2021Davison et al. ( , 2023 and McGurk et al. (2016). There are about 100 named Australian species, but many more await description. ...

... In addition to the chronosequence studies that compare fungal communities on sites of different fire history (Table 1), inventories of fungi from individual sites of known time since fire could be relevant when considering the effects of fire on fungi. Examples of such inventories come from repeated sampling for fruit-bodies of various groups of macrofungi on Mt Wellington in Tasmania, which was last burnt in 1967 (Ratkowsky and Gates 2002;Ratkowsky 2004, 2005;Trappe et al. 2008). Such inventories have the potential to contribute to the pool of knowledge about fungi in different vegetation types of particular fire histories, but at present the information available is too limited to make meaningful comparisons. ...

... Based on those works, a preliminary survey of Australian boletes was published by . Further work by Bougher & Thiers (1991), Castellano et al. (1992), Wolfe & Bougher (1993), Halling et al. (2006Halling et al. ( , 2008Halling et al. ( , 2012aHalling et al. ( ,b, 2014Halling et al. ( , 2015, Halling & Fechner (2011), Trappe et al. (2013), Fechner et al. (2017), Gelardi et al. (2017), Davoodian et al. (2018Davoodian et al. ( , 2019, and Crous et al. (2020Crous et al. ( , 2021 added to these efforts to document novel taxa, clarify concepts, and infer phylogenetic relationships of some Australian boletes. Recently, Osmundson et al. (2021) went into further detail deciphering earlier concepts used to delimit Tylopilus worldwide. ...

... The first species of this group Tylopilus balloui (Peck) Singer was described by C.H. Peck in 1912 (as a Boletus) from North America [80]. The generic recognition of T. balloui was ambiguous as an extension of either Gyrodon, Rubinoboletus and Gyroporus [81]; however, phylogenetic studies confidently place it in a core Tylopilus clade [63,66,[82][83][84]. This species was reported from various regions of the tropical and subtropical areas, and it was considered that T. balloui sensu lato has a very wide distribution with some morphological variability for each region. ...

... Rather, there are a series of publications covering the species of Amanita predominantly based on collections from smaller regions such as by Reid (1980) for Victoria, Miller (1991Miller ( , 1992 for south-west Western Australia (W.A.) and Wood (1997) for the Sydney region. More recently, Davison and colleagues have described a number of new species from W.A. (Davison et al. 2013(Davison et al. , 2015(Davison et al. , 2017a(Davison et al. , b, 2020(Davison et al. , 2021. The native species documented in these works associate with native mycorrhizal hosts such as species of Myrtaceae, Nothofagaceae and Fabaceae. ...

... The reddish-brown and 2-3 mm-diameter basidiomata were easily recognisable due to the typical small, white veil remnants close to the edge of the campanulate, hygrophanous and striate pilei. The smooth and ellipsoid spores were light ochre and cheilocystidia were typically subcapitate (Jacobsson 1992;Courtecuisse and Duhem 1995;Matheny et al. 2007 Agonimia globulifera is a crustose lichen, well characterized by the presence of black, glossy sterile globules (aggregated goniocysts) on a minutely granulose greenish thallus. In Europe, this species generally occurs on moss, plant debris, humus, and rarely on rocks in open calcareous areas at mainly low and middle elevations (Olsen et al. 2019; nonetheless, its overall distribution is poorly known. ...

... P. Kumm. as outgroups, similar to Chew et al. (2014). The 79 sequences determined by previous studies (Chew et al., 2014;Cooper, 2018;Harder et al., 2010Harder et al., , 2012Harder et al., , 2013Liu et al., 2021Liu et al., , 2022Matheny et al., 2006;Olariaga et al., 2015;Osmundson et al., 2013) and eight sequences identified in our study were analyzed using the GTR+G model and RAxML method (Table 2). In MrBayes analysis, we estimated the optimal base substitution model using KAKUSAN4 (Tanabe, 2011) and GTR+G model was selected. ...

... In contrast, the mycota has not received the same degree of attention in conservation and restoration of any eucalyptdominated ecosystem, despite its importance in plant and animal nutrition and nutrient cycling through leaf and woody litter decomposition (Bougher and Tommerup, 1996;O'Connell and Grove, 1996;Bougher and Tommerup, 2003). E. marginata occurs on relatively nutrient-poor soils, thus nutrient access through mycorrhizal associations is likely to be of particular importance to establishment and survival of the plant community (Churchward and Dimmock, 1989). ...

... This bias is slowly being reduced thanks to global sampling and DNA sequencing efforts that more comprehensively capture microbial diversity. Diversification studies on microorganisms have emerged, including studies on fungi (Varga et al. 2019, Perez-Lamarque et al. 2022, protists (Lewitus 2018), bacteria (Marin et al. 2016, Louca et al. 2018, and archaea ...

... Based on those works, a preliminary survey of Australian boletes was published by . Further work by Bougher & Thiers (1991), Castellano et al. (1992), Wolfe & Bougher (1993), Halling et al. (2006Halling et al. ( , 2008Halling et al. ( , 2012aHalling et al. ( ,b, 2014Halling et al. ( , 2015, Halling & Fechner (2011), Trappe et al. (2013), Fechner et al. (2017), Gelardi et al. (2017), Davoodian et al. (2018Davoodian et al. ( , 2019, and Crous et al. (2020Crous et al. ( , 2021 added to these efforts to document novel taxa, clarify concepts, and infer phylogenetic relationships of some Australian boletes. Recently, Osmundson et al. (2021) went into further detail deciphering earlier concepts used to delimit Tylopilus worldwide. ...