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Kherlenchimeg N, Burenbaatar G, Baasanmunkh S, Tsegmed Z, Urgamal M, Bau T, Han SK, Oh SY, Choi HJ. Improved Understanding of the Macrofungal Diversity of Mongolia: Species Richness, Conservation Status, and An Annotated Checklist. MYCOBIOLOGY 2024; 52:13-29. [PMID: 38415175 PMCID: PMC10896165 DOI: 10.1080/12298093.2023.2297485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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In this study, we updated and revised the checklist of macrofungi, along with the distribution of phytogeographical regions and the regional conservation status in Mongolia. The checklist comprises 677 macrofungal species belonging to 284 genera and 119 families in the country. Based on previous studies, 18 species are currently invasive to Mongolia. In this checklist, only four species are endemic to Mongolia. Among the 677 species, the regional conservation status of 51 species was previously assessed as threatened in the country. Furthermore, we collected all available occurrence records from various sources. A total of 4733 occurrences of 655 species across Mongolia were analyzed for species richness based on a 0.5° × 0.5° grid cell size. We found the records to be unevenly distributed across Mongolia, where records from the northern and central parts dominate. Among these, we identified 43 grids with a high diversity of macrofungal species. Most of these grids did not reside inside by protected geographical areas.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nyamsuren Kherlenchimeg
- Laboratory of Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetic of Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Laboratory of Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetic of Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
- Key Laboratory of Edible Fungal Resources and Utilization (North), Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
- School of Animal Science & Biotechnology, Mongolian University of Life Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea
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- Laboratory of Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetic of Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Key Laboratory of Edible Fungal Resources and Utilization (North), Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun, China
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- Division of Forest Biodiversity, Korea National Arboretum, Pocheon, South Korea
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, Changwon National University, Changwon, South Korea
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Lee BG, Hur JS. Two new Rinodina lichens from South Korea, with an updated key to the species of Rinodina in the far eastern Asia. MycoKeys 2022; 87:159-182. [PMID: 35250346 PMCID: PMC8891229 DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.87.71524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Rinodinasalicis Lee & Hur and Rinodinazeorina Lee & Hur are described as new lichen-forming fungi from forested wetlands or a humid forest in South Korea. Rinodinasalicis is distinguishable from Rinodinaexcrescens Vain., the most similar species, by its olive-gray thallus with smaller areoles without having blastidia, contiguous apothecia, non-pruinose discs, paler disc color, wider ascospores in the Pachysporaria-type II, and the absence of secondary metabolites. Rinodinazeorina differs from Rinodinahypobadia Sheard by areolate and brownish thallus, non-pruinose apothecia, colorless and wider parathecium, narrower paraphyses with non-pigmented and unswollen tips, longer and narrower ascospores with angular to globose lumina, and the absence of pannarin. Molecular analyses employing internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences strongly support the two new species to be unique in the genus Rinodina. An updated key is provided to assist in the identification of all 63 taxa in Rinodina of the far eastern Asia.
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Spribille T, Fryday AM, Pérez-Ortega S, Svensson M, Tønsberg T, Ekman S, Holien H, Resl P, Schneider K, Stabentheiner E, Thüs H, Vondrák J, Sharman L. Lichens and associated fungi from Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. LICHENOLOGIST (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2020; 52:61-181. [PMID: 32788812 PMCID: PMC7398404 DOI: 10.1017/s0024282920000079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Lichens are widely acknowledged to be a key component of high latitude ecosystems. However, the time investment needed for full inventories and the lack of taxonomic identification resources for crustose lichen and lichenicolous fungal diversity have hampered efforts to fully gauge the depth of species richness in these ecosystems. Using a combination of classical field inventory and extensive deployment of chemical and molecular analysis, we assessed the diversity of lichens and associated fungi in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (USA), a mixed landscape of coastal boreal rainforest and early successional low elevation habitats deglaciated after the Little Ice Age. We collected nearly 5000 specimens and found a total of 947 taxa, including 831 taxa of lichen-forming and 96 taxa of lichenicolous fungi together with 20 taxa of saprotrophic fungi typically included in lichen studies. A total of 98 species (10.3% of those detected) could not be assigned to known species and of those, two genera and 27 species are described here as new to science: Atrophysma cyanomelanos gen. et sp. nov., Bacidina circumpulla, Biatora marmorea, Carneothele sphagnicola gen. et sp. nov., Cirrenalia lichenicola, Corticifraga nephromatis, Fuscidea muskeg, Fuscopannaria dillmaniae, Halecania athallina, Hydropunctaria alaskana, Lambiella aliphatica, Lecania hydrophobica, Lecanora viridipruinosa, Lecidea griseomarginata, L. streveleri, Miriquidica gyrizans, Niesslia peltigerae, Ochrolechia cooperi, Placynthium glaciale, Porpidia seakensis, Rhizocarpon haidense, Sagiolechia phaeospora, Sclerococcum fissurinae, Spilonema maritimum, Thelocarpon immersum, Toensbergia blastidiata and Xenonectriella nephromatis. An additional 71 'known unknown' species are cursorily described. Four new combinations are made: Lepra subvelata (G. K. Merr.) T. Sprib., Ochrolechia minuta (Degel.) T. Sprib., Steineropsis laceratula (Hue) T. Sprib. & Ekman and Toensbergia geminipara (Th. Fr.) T. Sprib. & Resl. Thirty-eight taxa are new to North America and 93 additional taxa new to Alaska. We use four to eight DNA loci to validate the placement of ten of the new species in the orders Baeomycetales, Ostropales, Lecanorales, Peltigerales, Pertusariales and the broader class Lecanoromycetes with maximum likelihood analyses. We present a total of 280 new fungal DNA sequences. The lichen inventory from Glacier Bay National Park represents the second largest number of lichens and associated fungi documented from an area of comparable size and the largest to date in North America. Coming from almost 60°N, these results again underline the potential for high lichen diversity in high latitude ecosystems.
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- Toby Spribille
- Department of Biological Sciences, CW405, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AlbertaT6G 2R3, Canada
- Department of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biology, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Holteigasse 6, 8010Graz, Austria
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, Montana59812, USA
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- Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan48824, USA
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- Real Jardín Botánico (CSIC), Departamento de Micología, Calle Claudio Moyano 1, E-28014Madrid, Spain
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- Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 16, SE-75236Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen Allégt. 41, P.O. Box 7800, N-5020Bergen, Norway
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- Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 16, SE-75236Uppsala, Sweden
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- Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture, Nord University, Box 2501, NO-7729Steinkjer, Norway
- NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491Trondheim, Norway
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- Faculty of Biology, Department I, Systematic Botany and Mycology, University of Munich (LMU), Menzinger Straße 67, 80638München, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, GlasgowG12 8QQ, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Institute of Biology, University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Holteigasse 6, 8010Graz, Austria
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- Botany Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191Stuttgart, Germany
- Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, LondonSW7 5BD, UK
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Zámek 1, 252 43Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1760, CZ-370 05České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, P.O. Box 140, Gustavus, Alaska99826, USA
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