Research Papers

Biodiversity studies and surveys

• Wood-inhabiting macrofungal assemblages in 43-year-old regenerating wet Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér (PDF 1022KB) forest [GM Gates, DM Carpenter, DA Ratkowsky, PJ Dalton, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 145: 65-76 (2011)]
• An inventory of dead wood in four plots of differing wildlife history in a tall, wet Eucalyptus obliqua forest in southern Tasmania, Australia (WORD 2.3MB) [GM Gates. TJ Wardlaw, DA Ratkowsky, NJ Davidson, CL Mohammed, unpublished manuscript, February 2011]
• The ecology and diversity of wood-inhabiting macrofungi in a native Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania, Australia (PDF 835KB) [GM Gates, C Mohammed, T Wardlaw, DA Ratkowsky, NJ Davidson, Fungal Ecology 4: 56-67 (2011)] [Send email to D.Ratkowsky@utas.edu.au requesting a copy of this paper]
• Diversity and phenology of the macrofungal assemblages supported by litter in a tall, wet Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania, Australia (PDF 1015KB) [GM Gates, C Mohammed, T Wardlaw, NJ Davidson, DA Ratkowsky, Fungal Ecology 4: 68-75 (2011)][Send email to D.Ratkowsky@utas.edu.au requesting a copy of this paper]
• Diversity and ecology of epigeous ectomycorrhizal macrofungal assemblages in a native wet eucalypt forest in Tasmania, Australia (PDF 451KB) [GM Gates, C Mohammed, DA Ratkowsky, T Wardlaw, NJ Davidson, Fungal Ecology 4: 290-298 (2011)] [Send email to D.Ratkowsky@utas.edu.au requesting a copy of this paper]
• Macrofungi in early stages of forest regeneration in Tasmania's southern forests (PDF 571KB) [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Tasforests 18: 55-66 (2009)]
• Aggregated retention and macrofungi: a case study from the Warra LTER site, Tasmania (PDF 1MB) [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, SJ Grove, Tasforests 18: 33-54 (2009)]
• Comparing indigenous and European-based concepts of seasonality for predicting macrofungal fruiting activity in Tasmania (PDF 600KB) [GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist28: 36-42 (2009)]
• Ascomycetes associated with ectomycorrhizas: molecular diversity and ecology with particular reference to the Helotiales (PDF 1.6MB) [LTedersoo, K Pärtel, T Jairus, G Gates, K Põldmaa, H Tamm, Environmental Microbiology 11: 3166-3178 (2009)]
• Establishment of ectomycorrhizal fungal community on isolated Nothofagus cunninghamii seedlings regenerating on dead wood in Australian wet temperate forests: does fruit-body type matter? (PDF 327KB) [L Tedersoo, G Gates, CW Dunk, T Lebel, TM May, U Kõljalg, T Jairus, Mycorrhiza 19: 403-416 (2009)]
• A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania - the sequestrate species (PDF 250KB) [JM Trappe, NL Bougher, MA Castellano, AW Claridge, GM Gates, T Lebel, DA Ratkowsky, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 142(2): 85-95 (2008)]
• 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]
• A comparison of macrofungi in young silvicultural regeneration and mature forest at the Warra LTER site in the southern forests of Tasmania (PDF 608KB) [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 (PDF 309KB) [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 (PDF 160KB) [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 (PDF 517KB) [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Tasforests 16: 153-168 (2005)]
• A preliminary census of the macrofungi of Mt Wellington, Tasmania - the non-gilled Basidiomycota (PDF 245KB) [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 (PDF 189KB) [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 (PDF 778KB) [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania136: 89-100(2002)]
• Biological aspects of Heterobasidion hemitephrum (PDF 2.8MB) [Bachelor of Science with Honours Thesis, RM Robinson, University of Tasmania, Botany Department (1986)]

Taxonomy of Tasmanian fungi

• Fungal planet description sheets: 128-153 (PDF 12.8MB) [PW Crous, RG Shivas, MJ Wingfield, BA Summerell, AY Rossman, JL Alves, GC Adams, RW Barreto, A Bell, ML Coutinho, SL Flory, G Gates +26 other authors,Persoonia29: 146-201 (2012)]
• Five new species and records of Inocybe (Agaricales) from temperate and tropical Australia (PDF 4.6MB) [NL Bougher, PB Matheny, GM Gates,Nuytsia22(2): 57-74 (2012)]
• Preliminary studies in the genus Entoloma in Tasmania - II (PDF 13.1MB) [M Noordeloos, GM Gates, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 30(2): 107-140 (2009)] 
• A new Entoloma (Basidiomycetes, Agaricales) from Tasmania (PDF 344KB) [GM Gates, BM Horton, M Noordeloos, Mycotaxon 107:175-179 (2009)]
• Preliminary studies in the genus Entoloma in Tasmania - I (PDF 25.9MB) [GM Gates, ME Noordeloos, Persoonia 19(2): 157-226 (2007)]
• Genus Cortinarius, subgenus Phlegmacium in Tasmania (PDF 88.4MB) [B Gasparini, New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 155-236 (2007)] 
• New species and records of Rhodocybe (PDF 1.7MB) (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from Tasmania [TJ Baroni, GM Gates, Australian Systematic Botany 19: 343-358 (2006)]
• Lentinellus reconsidered (PDF 194KB)[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 (PDF 6.1MB) [M. Dunstan, University of Tasmania, School of Plant Science, KPA 378 Research project (2006)]
• Some new species of the Strophariaceae (Agaricales) in Tasmania (PDF 734KB) [YS Chang, GM Gates, DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 24: 53-68 (2006)]
• The Hygrophoraceae of Tasmania(PDF 232KB) [AM Young, AK Mills, Muelleria 16:3-28 (2002)]

Other general papers

• Molecular phylogeny and spore evolution of Entolomataceae (PDF 2.6MB) [D Co-David, D Langeveld, ME Noordeloos, Persoonia 23: 147-176 (2009)]
• Tests for dispersion among macrofungal species assemblages (PDF 356KB) [DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 27: 66-73 (2008)]
• Generalised canonical correlations analysis for explaining macrofungal species assemblages (PDF 536KB) [DA Ratkowsky, GM Gates, Australasian Mycologist 27: 33-40 (2008)]
• Visualising macrofungal species assemblage compositions using canonical discriminant analysis (PDF 278KB) [DA Ratkowsky, Australasian Mycologist 26: 75-85 (2007)]
• Mushrooms of Maatsuyker Island (PDF 1.4MB) [B Horton, The Tasmanian Naturalist 128: 11-22 (2006)]
• Some interesting fungal records for Tasmania (PDF 454KB) [G Gates, D Ratkowsky, The Tasmanian Naturalist 126: 2-5 (2004)]
• Keys to the Tasmanian families and genera of gilled fungi (PDF 613KB) [D Ratkowsky, G Gates, The Tasmanian Naturalist 124: 2-24 (2002)]