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They are not just Mushrooms!King Wong
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What are fungi?
• Not plants, not animals
• Macrofungi and Microfungi
• Almost all plants rely on fungi
Image courtesy of Robert A. Samson.
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Symbiotic Relationship
• strong symbiotic relationship with plants
• without fungi, there won't be any new plant, vice versa
taken from faslanyc.blogspot.ca
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Importance
• help plants to absorb nutrients
• increase plants' surface area
• recycle dead plant mass
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There are six species of fungi for every species of plant
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It is estimated there are 250,000 species of plant
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250,000x6=1.5M1.5M species of fungi, that's a lot!
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Macrofungal Ecology
• less well studied in North America
• Less than 1% of macrofungi in BC has been systematically surveyed
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Macrofungal Survey
• Prediction
• Macrofungi are more diverse in older forest than younger forest
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Choosing sites
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Older Forest Younger Forest
One giant dead log few small logs
tree vary in sizes trees similar in size and more evenly distributed
less dense more dense
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Results
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Simpson's Diversity Index
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Genera Evenness
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Similarity significance
• after running Analysis of Similarities,
• 0.29 of significance, low significance
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Discussion
• Two forests have similar age
• Not in season
• small sample size
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Laccaria Bicolor
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Discussion
• Laccaria Bicolor maybe the most abundant macrofungi in coastal temperate rainforest in August
• macrofungal ecology in different forest types should be studied in BC
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Improvement of survey
• choosing a true old growth forest
• better ID skills
• bigger sample size
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AcknowledgementsAndy MacKinnon
My father, YC Wong Dr. Bridgette Clarkston
Orla Osborne Brett Howard
Nic and Nicole and YOU GUYS!!!