Protocols for an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Fungi in a Costa Rican Conservation Area
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Book Description
Protocols for an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Fungi in a Costa Rican Conservation Area by A.Y. Rossman, R.E. Tulloss, T.E. O'Dell and R.G. Thorn is the result of a workshop that took place at the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica. At the workshop, a group of 25 mycologists from around the world met to design a project to sample all of the fungi in the ACG. The book is a how-to-manual for isolating and sampling fungi. The methods described in this book range from a double transect design for sampling mushrooms and large fungi over an extended period to procedures for isolating fungi from leaf litter and dung. It is a "cookbook" of recommended procedures that would result in locating fungi from most substrates. Many of the techniques described here, although aimed at sampling/isolating fungi in a tropical region, are applicable anywhere. Numerous references are included for isolating and characterizing the resulting fungi.
About the Author
Amy Y. Rossman is Director of the U.S. National Fungus Collections and Research Leader of the USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. She has collected, isolated and studied microfungi from tropical regions of the world. As Head of the Taxonomic Working Group for Fungi, she organized and lead the workshop in Guanacaste, Costa Rica at which plans and protocols for the all taxa biodiversity inventory for fungi were developed.
Rodham E. Tulloss is an expert in systematics of the mushroom genus Amanita, including species from Neotropical areas. With C.L. Ovrebo and R. E. Halling, he published the currently definitive work on Amanita in Andean Colombia and is now writing a similar work focused on species of Costa Rican oak forest with Halling and G. M. Mueller. Trained in mathematics and engineering, he has developed methods for analyzing similarity of data sets, e.g., from inventories of fungi.
Thomas E. O'Dell is the regional mycologist for the USDA Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently developing regional surveys for fungi associated with late successional habitats in order to effectively manage these areas and conserve their biodiversity. He has developed sampling strategies for macrofungal studies in the Olympic National Park of Washington and the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest and Long Term Ecological Research Site, Willamette National Forest, Oregon.
R. Greg Thorn is a visiting professor at the University of Wyoming. He has studied soil and litter decay fungi and their associations with nematodes, other invertebrates and bacteria. He has developed specialized isolation techniques for these fungi and is applying molecular methods to the study of their diversity, ecology and systematics in both temperate and tropical ecosystems.
Protocols for an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of Fungi in a Costa Rican Conservation Area,Rodham E. Tulloss,Thomas E. O'Dell,R. Greg Thorn,Amy Y. Rossman,Parkway Pub,1887905057,Area de Conservacion Guanacas,Area de Conservaciâon Guanacaste,Costa Rica,Fungi,Life Sciences - Botany,Mycological surveys,Nature / Mushrooms,Sampling,Science,Science/Mathematics,Biological diversity,Biology,Handbooks, manuals, etc.,Mushrooms,Mycology
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