Prof. Dr. Martin Schnittler

Myxomycete Research
Vascular Plant Research
Red Lists and Conservation work

[Here, only a very preliminary listing is sufficient, since the whole collection will be posted on the web in the frame of a GBIF project, if that is funded –planned for 2004, first decision about funding positive]

Myxomycete Collection

Fructifications of myxomycetes can be stored as herbarium specimens, mounted with a piece of substratum in a small box. The about 10 000 specimens of this collection are in the process of being transferred to the Herbarium Munich (M, Botanische Staatssammlung), a project for a web-searchable data base is under development.

Regions and countries represented by numerous specimens are

Region

Vegetation

Specimens ca.

Publication

Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula

tundra, boreal forest

150

pdf

Chibine mountains, Kola peninsula

tundra, boreal forest

250

pdf

White Sea region, Russian Karelia

boreal forest

1000

pdf

German Alps

montane spruce-fir forest

400

pdf

Ontario, Canada

mixed hardwood

1000

 

Appalachian mountains, USA

deciduous forest

450

 

Costa Rica,

Puerto Rico

tropical dry to cloud forest

2500

pdf

pdf

western Andes, Ecuador

cloud forests

500

pdf

Amazon basin, Ecuador

tropical moist forest

500

 

western Kazakhstan

winter-cold desert

250

pdf, pdf

lower Volga basin

winter-cold desert to steppe

250

 

southern Texas

desert to juniper and pine forests

380