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

这个项目的重点是一个生物多样性研究项目，目标是在一个被忽视但可能多样化的环境中，与节肢动物相关的一组多样而不为人知的真菌，Laboulbeniales。本研究的目的是收集和描述新西兰原始森林中与甲虫相关的Laboulbeniales，记录所观察到的寄主利用模式和物种丰富度，并使研究结果可供广泛使用。拟议的研究将产生第一本南温带Laboulbeniales专著，并将提供关于寄主利用和物种丰富度模式的数据，这将在生物群落中广泛应用。从长远来看，这些结果不仅对真菌学家有用，而且对那些对系统发育、生物地理学和共同进化有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.