Tasmanian Fungi

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Research papers:

Biodiversity studies and surveys:

Relative influence of host plant genetics on a macrofungal log decay community [M. Storer, Honours project summary, School of Plant Science, University of Tasmania, 2007]

Macrofungal biodiversity in an aggregated retention coupe at the Warra LTER [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, A report to Forestry Tasmania (unpublished), 17 Nov. 2006]

A comparison of macrofungi in young silvicultural regeneration and mature forest at the Warra LTER site in the southern forests of Tasmania [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, SJ Grove, Tasforests 16: 127-152 (2005)]

Wood-decay fungi and saproxylic beetles associated with living Eucalyptus obliqua trees: early results from studies at the Warra LTER site, Tasmania [AJM Hopkins, KS Harrison, SJ Grove, TJ Wardlaw, CL Mohammed, Tasforests 16: 111-126 (2005)]

A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania – the Ascomycota [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 139: 49-52 (2005)]

An inventory of macrofungi observed in Tasmanian forests over a six-year period. [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Tasforests 16: 153-168 (2005)]

A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania – the non-gilled Basidiomycota [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 138: 53-59 (2004)]

Macrofungal diversity and community ecology in mature and regrowth wet eucalypt forest in Tasmania: A multivariate study [JM Packham, TW May, MJ Brown, TJ Wardlaw, AK Mills, Austral Ecology 27: 149-161 (2002)]

A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mount Wellington, Tasmania – the Agaricales [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 136: 89-100(2002)]

Biological aspects of Heterobasidion hemitephrum [Bachelor of Science with Honours Thesis, RM Robinson, University of Tasmania, Botany Department (1986)]

Taxonomy of Tasmanian fungi:

Preliminary studies in the genus Entoloma in Tasmania - I [GM Gates, ME Noordeloos, Persoonia 19(2): 157-226 (2007)] (large file, ca. 26 MB)

Genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium in Tasmania [B Gasparini, New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 155-236 (2007)] (large file, ca. 88 MB)

New species and records of Rhodocybe (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Tasmania [TJ Baroni, GM Gates, Australian Systematic Botany 19: 343-358 (2006)]

Lentinellus reconsidered [D Ratkowsky, G Gates, The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 8-10 (2006)]

A preliminary study into the taxonomy of the genus Psathyrella (Fr.) Quél. in Southern Tasmania [M. Dunstan, University of Tasmania, School of Plant Science, KPA 378 Research project (2006)]

Some new species of the Strophariaceae (Agaricales) in Tasmania [YS Chang, GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 24: 53-68 (2006)]

The Hygrophoraceae of Tasmania [AM Young, AK Mills, Muelleria 16:3-28 (2002)]

Other general papers:

Tests for dispersion among macrofungal species assemblages [DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 27: 66-73 (2008)]

Generalised canonical correlations analysis for explaining macrofungal species assemblages [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Australasian Mycologist 27: 33-40 (2008)]

Visualising macrofungal species assemblage compositions using canonical discriminant analysis [DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 26: 75-85 (2007)]

Mushrooms of Maatsuyker Island [B Horton, The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 11-22 (2006)]

Some interesting fungal records for Tasmania [G Gates, D Ratkowsky, The Tasmanian Naturalist 126: 2-5 (2004)]

Keys to the Tasmanian families and genera of gilled fungi [D Ratkowsky, G Gates, The Tasmanian Naturalist 124: 2-24 (2002)]