Agaric Diversity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

美国国家自然科学基金会项目：生物多样性调查和目录作者：卡伦·休斯，罗恩·彼得森，田纳西大学，诺克斯维尔大烟山国家公园（GSMNP）占地50多万英亩，是一个具有特殊生物多样性的地区，这是山脉年龄、地形变化和冰河期历史的结果。该公园是北部森林分离元素的避难所，冰川避难所的遗迹，以及现在在中美洲和墨西哥发现的植物群。公园里的许多生命形式鲜为人知，记录很少，或完全未被发现。大烟山国家公园是一个雄心勃勃的项目的所在地，该项目记录了其生物多样性，即所有分类单元生物多样性清单（ATBI）。真菌是生物多样性中最重要但最不为人所知的因素之一，它们在森林健康中发挥着重要作用，包括腐烂物质的降解和与植物的基本共生。这个奖项是为了表彰为记录公园内部分真菌多样性而进行的协调工作。未来4年，来自美国、欧洲和墨西哥的20名科学家将在GSMNP中收集和记录木耳真菌（蘑菇及其亲戚）。收集的数据将记录在一个数据库中，供公众和其他研究人员使用，并将作为今后研究的一个模型。在线物种页面将被创建，提供每一个物种的信息和照片。每次采集的准确位置数据将有助于评估真菌种类、森林类型和酸雨形式的污染模式之间的关系。与特定地点相关的物种组合将被评估，并与40年前同一地点的收集物（保存在田纳西大学植物标本馆的收集物）进行比较。最后，该项目将继续建立TENN数据库，以便使所有来自GSMNP的TENN集合在线上可用。该奖助金还用于与美国真菌学学会在北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔举行的会议一起举办为期3天的“真菌闪电战”。“真菌攻坚战”是田纳西大学、杜克大学和美国真菌学学会的真菌学家之间的一项合作活动，将包括来自所有真菌类群的真菌研究人员，包括壶菌、子囊菌、合子菌和其他担子菌，以获得真菌整体生物多样性的“快照”。

NSF Award Abstract Proposal No. 0338699 Agaric Diversity in the Great Smoky Mountains National ParkNSF Program: Biodiversity Surveys and InventoriesPIs: Karen Hughes, Ron Petersen, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleComprising more than half a million acres, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) is a region of exceptional biodiversity, a consequence of the age of the mountains, varied terrain and ice-age history. The Park is a refuge for disjunct elements of northern forests, relicts of glacial refugia, and for flora now found in Central America and Mexico. Many life forms in the Park are poorly known, poorly documented, or entirely undiscovered. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the site of an ambitious project to document its biodiversity, the All Taxon Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI). Among the most important but least understood elements of biodiversity are the fungi, which play essential roles in forest health including degradation of dead materials and essential symbioses with plants. This award is for coordination of an effort to document a portion of the fungal diversity in the Park. Twenty researchers from the United States, Europe and Mexico will collect and document agaric fungi (mushrooms and their relatives) in the GSMNP over the next four years. Collections data will be recorded in a database which will be available to the public and to other researchers, and which will serve as a model for future studies. On-line species pages will be created, providing information and a photograph for each species identified. Accurate location data for each collection will allow evaluation of the relationship of fungal species, forest types, and pollution patterns in the form of acid rain. Assemblages of species associated with specific locales will be evaluated and compared with collections from the same locale 40 years ago (collections maintained in the University of Tennessee herbarium -TENN). Finally, the project will continue to database TENN in order to make all TENN collections from the GSMNP available on line. The grant also provides for hosting a 3-day "mycoblitz" in conjunction with the Mycological Society of America meetings in Asheville, North Carolina. The mycoblitz is a cooperative activity among mycologists at the University of Tennessee, Duke University and the Mycological Society of America and will include fungal researchers from all fungal groups including chytrids, ascomycetes, zygomycetes and other basidiomycetes to get a "snapshot" of overall fungal biodiversity.