BIODIVERSITY INVENTORIES: Boletineae (Fungi) in Queensland, Australia

该项目支持对来自澳大利亚昆士兰的牛肝菌(俗称牛肝菌)进行基本的野外勘探，该地区预计具有高度的多样性。这些蘑菇是人类和动物高度珍视的食物；它们的生态系统功能也很重要，因为它们与森林生态系统健康的最大贡献者的根部形成了强制性的共生联系。真菌多样性的基础知识对于森林生态系统的任何应用研究都是至关重要的。研究人员将通过国际合作和对几名学生的培训，产生关于这些澳大利亚蘑菇的基线数据。该项目还将产生一个由现代方法支持的进化分类，并将构建用于鉴定、比较和记录牛肝菌的在线资源。该提案中概述的工作将为澳大利亚昆士兰提供这组重要蘑菇的第一个生物多样性清单；该地区包括澳大利亚的三个生物多样性热点以及世界遗产名录。此次调查收集的数据将对了解大型真菌的系统学、生物地理学和生态学有价值，并将为了解澳大利亚部分独特森林群落的形成、维护和保护提供重要信息，这些群落主要存在于养分贫瘠的贫瘠土壤上。

This project supports basic field exploration to study the bolete mushrooms (commonly known as porcini mushrooms) from Queensland, Australia - an area predicted to have high diversity. These mushrooms are highly prized by humans and animals for food; they are also important for their ecosystem function function as they form obligatory symbiotic associations with the roots of where they are the largest contributor to forest ecosystem health. Fundamental knowledge of fungal diversity is essential for any applied research on forest ecosystems. The investigators will produce baseline data on these Australian mushrooms via international collaboration and the training of several students. The project will also produce an evolutionary classification supported by modern methods and will construct online resources for identification, comparison, and documentation of bolete mushrooms.The work outlined in this proposal will provide a first biodiversity inventory of this group of important mushrooms for Queensland, Australia; a region known to encompass three of Australia's Biodiversity Hotspots as well as World Heritage listed sites. Data gathered from this survey will prove valuable for understanding the systematics, biogeography, and ecology of macrofungi and will provide important information for understanding the formation, maintenance and conservation of a portion of Australia's unique forest communities that largely exist on nutrient poor, impoverished soils.