South Temperate Beetle Hangers: A Survey of New Zealand Laboulbeniales Fungi and Their Hosts

Weir9972083该项目的重点是生物多样性研究的一个计划，目标是一个多样化和模糊的节肢动物相关真菌，Laboulbeniales，在一个被忽视的，但潜在的多样性设置。 这项研究的目的是收集和描述的Laboulbeniales与甲虫在新西兰的原生森林，记录的主机利用和物种丰富度观察到的模式，并使结果提供和使用的广大观众。 拟议的研究将导致第一个南温带的Laboulbeniales专著，并将提供宿主利用和物种丰富度模式的数据，将在生物界的广泛应用。 从长远来看，这些结果不仅对真菌学家有用，而且对那些对真菌发生学、植物地理学和协同进化感兴趣的科学家也有用。

Weir9972083This project is focused on a program of biodiversity research that targets a diverse and obscure group of arthropod-associated fungi, the Laboulbeniales, in a neglected but potentially diverse setting. The objectives of the study are to collect and describe the Laboulbeniales associated with beetles in native forests of New Zealand, to document the patterns of host utilization and species richness observed and to make the results available and usable to a broad audience. The proposed research will result in the first south temperate monograph of Laboulbeniales and will provide data on host utilization and species richness patterns that will be of widespread application within the biological community. In the loner term the results should be of use not only to mycologists, but to those scientists with research interests in phylogeny, biogeography, and coevoltuion.