Mapping Scotland’s Fungi

1. Mapping Scotland’s Fungi Recorder’s Conference 2012 Neville Kilkenny

2. Introduction: • Problems associated with recording and mapping Scotland’s fungi • Fruiting patterns & ‘The Species Accumulation Curve’ • Identification - most fungi difficult and require microscopy as well as an expensive library • Capacity lacking at professional level of expertise • Literature- no definitive Funga Scotica • Recording fields – Substrate & Associated Organism • Authority by which species are identified • Locality • Where to submit records to (duplication)

3. Introduction: • Problems associated with recording and mapping Scotland’s fungi • Fruiting patterns & ‘Species accumulation curve’ • Identification - most fungi difficult and require microscopy as well as an expensive library • Capacity lacking at professional level of expertise • Literature- no definitive Funga Scotica • Recording fields – Substrate & Associated Organism • Authority by which species are identified • Locality • Where to submit records to (duplication)

4. When is a mushroom not a mushroom? Life cycle of a fungus Amanita Muscaria, Fly Agaric Boletus edulis, Cep/Penny Bun Cantharellus cibarius, Chantarelle

5. Methodology Base line data and surveillance Survey of Agarics & Boleti from Abernethy Forest by Peter Orton 1968 -1998

6. Methodology Base line data and surveillance Survey of Agarics & Boleti from Abernethy Forest by Peter Orton 1968 -1998

7. Methodology Base line data and surveillance Survey of Agarics & Boleti from Abernethy Forest by Peter Orton 1968 -1998

8. Problems associated with recording and mapping Scotland’s fungi • Fruiting patterns & ‘Species accumulation curve’ • Identification - most fungi difficult and require microscopy as well as an expensive library • Capacity lacking at professional level of expertise • Literature- no definitive Funga Scotica • Recording fields – Substrate & Associated Organism • Authority by which species are identified • Locality • Where to submit records to (duplication)

9. Problems associated with recording and mapping Scotland’s fungi • Fruiting patterns & ‘Species accumulation curve’ • Identification - most fungi difficult and require microscopy as well as an expensive library • Capacity lacking at professional level of expertise • Literature- no definitive Funga Scotica • Recording fields – Substrate & Associated Organism • Authority by which species are identified • Locality • Where to submit records to (duplication)

10. 2 Extra recording fields required – Substrate & Associated Organism

11. Problems associated with recording and mapping Scotland’s fungi • Fruiting patterns & ‘Species accumulation curve’ • Identification - most fungi difficult and require microscopy as well as an expensive library • Capacity lacking at professional level of expertise • Literature- no definitive Funga Scotica • Recording fields – Substrate & Associated Organism • Authority by which species are identified • Locality • Where to submit records to (duplication)

12. Scottish Fungi http://sites.google.com/site/scottishfungi/home

13. Fungi The Forgotten Kingdom