Myxomycetes from Nigeria. II

Ing, Bruce; McHugh, Roland

doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(68)80054-3

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“…5 d) in Sierra Leone studied mainly by Deighton and Hansford from 1936 to 1963; for Pucciniales (like Fig. 6 h) in Guinea mainly published by Kranz ( 1964 ) and Viennot-Bourgin ( 1959 ) and in Nigeria mostly published by Eboh from 1977 to 1989; and for Mycetozoa in Nigeria (Ing 1964 ; Ing and McHugh 1968 ; Farquharson and Lister 1916 ).…”

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confidence: 98%

Mapping mycological ignorance – checklists and diversity patterns of fungi known for West Africa

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Scientific information about biodiversity distribution is indispensable for nature conservation and sustainable management of natural resources. For several groups of animals and plants, such data are available, but for fungi, especially in tropical regions like West Africa, they are mostly missing. Here, information for West African countries about species diversity of fungi and fungus-like organisms (other organisms traditionally studied by mycologists) is compiled from literature and analysed in its historical context for the first time. More than 16,000 records of fungi representing 4843 species and infraspecific taxa were found in 860 publications relating to West Africa. Records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) database (2395 species), and that of the former International Mycological Institute fungal reference collection (IMI) (2526 species) were also considered. The compilation based on literature is more comprehensive than the GBIF and IMI data, although they include 914 and 679 species names, respectively, which are not present in the checklist based on literature. According to data available in literature, knowledge on fungal richness ranges from 19 species (Guinea Bissau) to 1595 (Sierra Leone). In estimating existing species diversity, richness estimators and the Hawksworth 6:1 fungus to plant species ratio were used. Based on the Hawksworth ratio, known fungal diversity in West Africa represents 11.4% of the expected diversity. For six West African countries, however, known fungal species diversity is less than 2%. Incomplete knowledge of fungal diversity is also evident by species accumulation curves not reaching saturation, by 45.3% of the fungal species in the checklist being cited only once for West Africa, and by 66.5% of the fungal species in the checklist reported only for a single country. The documentation of different systematic groups of fungi is very heterogeneous because historically investigations have been sporadic. Recent opportunistic sampling activities in Benin showed that it is not difficult to find specimens representing new country records. Investigation of fungi in West Africa started just over two centuries ago and it is still in an early pioneer phase. To promote proper exploration, the present checklist is provided as a tool to facilitate fungal identification in this region and to aid conceptualisation and justification of future research projects. Documentation of fungal diversity is urgently needed because natural habitats are being lost on a large scale through altered land use and climate change.

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“…The rapid turnover of litter and even dead wood through the activities of fungi and termites removes the habitat for most species. In Africa, the montane rain-forest seems to be more productive (Harkonen & Saarimaki, 1991) and, in Thailand, the montane forests dominated by oaks, chestnuts and magnolias produced species more appropriate to temperate woodlands (Siwasin & Ing, 1982) and with greater diversity than the lowland rain forest (Ing, Siwasin & Samaranpan, 1987). The same conclusions were reached by Hochgesand and Gottsberger (1993) in a study of different forest types in Sao Paulo, Brazil.…”

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Tansley Review No. 62 The phytosociology of myxomycetes

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1994

New Phytologist

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summary The factors influencing the distribution of myxomycetes are discussed and a detailed review of habitats, arranged according to major vegetation types, is offered. Some advances have been made in the past 25 years but it is only possible to claim the following: that temperature plays a significant role as a limiting factor in tropical, subtropical, Mediterranean and alpine species; that availability of water is of prime importance and water‐retaining substrates, whether they be bark, wood, litter, soil or humus are essential; that the distinction between corticolous, lignicolous and foliicolous species is reasonably consistent; that a few species are particularly associated with terrestrial bryophytes or are fungicolous; that, among the lignicoles, certain species are more or less confined to coniferous wood and others to angiospermous wood; that species are seasonal but the seasonally may vary for a given species in different climatic zones; that the occurrence of a myxomycete species is not governed, except perhaps in the corticolous species, by dispersal, which is efficient and effective, but by availability of suitable substrates; that there is a major ecological role for myxomonads in soil and probably within dead wood, and that there may be a limited association between the myxoflora and the vegetation.

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“…Common in the tropics. Earlier records from Africa are from Liberia (Farr 1959) and Nigeria (Ing & McHugh 1968). Sporangia gregarious, stipitate, globose or somewhat depressed, erect or nodding, sometimes umbilicate below, white to greyish white.…”

Section: Physarum Stellatum (Mas See) Martinmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Thus there is very little litter or dead wood available. Similarly in Nigeria, slime mould specimens in savanna and dry grassland have been few (Ing 1964, Ing & McHugh 1968. Maimoni-Rodella & Gottsberger (1980) have studied Myxomycetes in Botucatu, Brazil.…”

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