New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Saprobic and ectomycorrhizal ammonia fungi in the Southern Hemisphere
Akira Suzuki
Faculty of Education
Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku
Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Email: asmush@faculty.chiba-u.jp
Toshimitsu Fukiharu
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
955-2 Aoba-cho, Chuo-ku
Chiba 260-8682, Japan
Chihiro Tanaka
Laboratory of Environmental Mycoscience
Graduate School of Agriculture
Kyoto University
Oiwake-cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
Takako Ohono
Faculty of Education
Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku
Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Peter K. Buchanan
Landcare Research
Private Bag 92170
Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract The biogeographic distribution of ammonia
fungi is reviewed using collection records of ammonia fungi, mainly obtained
by artificial applications of urea in the field and in laboratory experiments.
Distribution records are fragmentary at a global scale. However, generally
speaking, the biogeographic distribution of ectomycorrhizal ammonia fungi
appears to be more restricted than that of saprobic ammonia fungi. Those
saprobic species of more restricted distribution are likely to have a more
rigid substrate specificity. The biogeographic distribution of ectomycorrhizal
ammonia fungi is likely to relate to the distribution of host mycorrhizal
tree(s) based on the degree of host specificity. Patterns of biogeographic
distribution of ammonia fungi can be categorised into six regional distribution
types: ubiquitous, Northern Hemisphere, East Asia, East Asia and Oceania,
Australia and New Zealand, and Australia endemic. Among the ammonia fungi,
closely related counterpart species in each hemisphere are recognised.
Keywords ammonia fungi; biogeographic distribution;
Coprinopsis; counterpart species; Eucalyptus; Hebeloma;
Nothofagus;Pinus; Quercus
B02083 Received 17 December 2002; accepted 11 August 2003; online publication
date 11 September 2003
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2003, Vol. 41: 391-406
0028-825X/03/4103-0391 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand
2003
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