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Tervonen, Kaisa
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Mycorrhizal fungi in wood-pastures
2018
Traditional rural biotopes such as wood-pastures are species-rich environments that have been created by low-intensity agriculture. Their amount has decreased dramatically during the 20th century in whole Europe due to the intensification of agriculture. Wood-pastures host some fungal species that prefer warm areas and are adapted to semi-open conditions, but still very little is known about fungi in these habitats. We studied how management, historical land-use intensity, present grazing intensity, time since abandonment, and stand conditions affect community composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi. We found that the proportion of broadleaved trees, soil pH, and soil moisture are the major dr…
Finnish fungal atlas as a conservation and education tool
2018
Fungi are a challenging organism group to study and often amateurs need extensive help to be able to correctly identify their fungal collections. Fungi could be used for an example as indicators of environmental changes and as a tool to evaluate the conservation value of endangered biotopes. However, all this requires reliable and extensive observation databases on fungi. If citizen scientists are not well enough educated, their contribution may be even harmful due to decreased data quality. To achieve more reliable information of habitat requirements, distribution and risk status of fungi in Finland we started a citizen science project called Sieniatlas (Finnish Fungal Atlas) in 2016, and …