Jack Marriott's Fungus Site Quality Index may help mycologists identify important areas for fungi

Post date: Sep 3, 2016 7:37:56 PM

In the late 90s the BMS joined the Forestry Commission in a biodiversity project to which many members of the Society contributed records. One of the spin-off studies of this project was a manuscript prepared by the late Jack Marriott. Unfortunately this never saw the light of day but we feel that it is worth publishing. It helps mycologists assess the importance of their favourite collecting patches to find out which justify more active attention, for example as candidate Important Fungus Areas. For others it allows a site to be assessed for its fungi against a reproducible background scale. In this way a site can be recommended for its mycodiversity or rejected when limited resources are available for fungus conservation and funding needs to be concentrated on other areas. Find out more about the Fungus Site Quality Index.