Fungal Conservation: Issues and Solutions

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-14
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Threats to fungi and fungal diversity throughout the world have prompted debates about whether and how fungi can be conserved. Should it be the site, or the habitat, or the host that is conserved? All of these issues are addressed in this volume, but coverage goes beyond mere debate with constructive guidance for management of nature in ways beneficial to fungi. Different parts of the world experience different problems and a range of examples are presented; from Finland in the North to Kenya in the South, and from Washington State, USA in the West to Fujian Province, China in the East. Equally wide-ranging solutions, are put forward, from voluntary agreements, through land management techniques, to primary legislation. Taken together, these provide useful suggestions about how fungi can be included in conservation projects in a range of circumstances.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Fungal conservation issues: recognising the problem, finding solutions
Current trends and perspectives for the global conservation of fungi R
Conservation and management of forest fungi in the Pacific Northwestern United States: an integrated ecosystem approach
The future of fungi in Europe: threats, conservation and management
Fungi as indicators of primeval and old-growth forests deserving protection
Recognising and managing mycologically valuable sites in The Netherlands
Threats to hypogeous fungi
Wild mushrooms and rural economies
Threats to biodiversity caused by traditional mushroom cultivation technology in China
A preliminary survey of waxcap grassland indicator species in South Wales
Grasslands in the coastal dunes: the effect of nature management on the mycota
The conservation of fungi on reserves managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Strategies for conservation of fungi in the Madonie Park, North Sicily
Fungal conservation in Ukraine
The threatened and near-threatened Aphyllophorales of Finland
Fungal conservation in Cuba
Microfungus diversity and the conservation agenda in Kenya
Fungi and the UK Biodiversity Action Plan: the process explained
The Scottish Wild Mushroom Forum
The contribution of national mycological societies: establishing a British Mycological Society policy
The contribution of national mycological societies: the Dutch Mycological Society and its Committee for Fungi and Nature Conservation
Fungal conservation in the 21st century: optimism and pessimism for the future
Index
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