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Distribution of poroid fungi (Basidiomycota) in the Atlantic Rain Forest in Northeast Brazil: implications for conservation

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The poroid fungi are macroscopic fungi whose fertile surface is usually poroid. Most of them are saprobes on dead wood and play fundamental role in nutrient cycling, mostly releasing carbon removed from the atmosphere by autotrophic organisms. Despite their importance, little is known about factors affecting polypore occurrence in the Neotropics. In this study, it was tested what abiotic and/or biotic conditions shapes distinct polypore communities in the Atlantic Rain Forest in Northeast Brazil by comparing (1) the composition of the species between coastal and montane forest and between dry and rainy season; (2) the similarities among areas against distance, and (3) the abundance of the species on logs of different sizes and decay stages. One hundred and ten transects (sampling units) were visited from 2008 to 2014, resulting in 138 species of poroid fungi, 80 % of them of infrequent occurrence. According to the Analysis of Similarity and PERMANOVA, the fungal communities did not form distinct groups in relation to the forest type or season, but the areas were different from each other and the variation can be partially explained by the distance among them when using linear regression. The poroid fungi were more frequently recorded in logs of decay stage 1 and 2 and their size had little, if none, effect on polypore occurrence. Thus, we suggest the protection of every fragment of any type of Atlantic Rain Forest and that dead wood should be not removed from a forest in order to protect polypore diversity.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the staff of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), for support during the field trips of CRSL, GSNM, and JMB, Michael Finnie for English suggestions, Roger Melo for help with the figures and Dr. Leif Ryvarden for identification of some specimens. Further, we acknowledge the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico (CNPq) for the master scholarship of GSNM, and JMB and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior for the master and doctorate scholarship of CRSL and doctorate scholarship of GSNM. The Pós-Graduação em Biologia de Fungos (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Pernambuco (APQ-0444-2.03/08) and CNPq [Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (PPBio) Semi-Árido (558317/2009-0, 457476/2012-5), Pesquisa em Unidades de Conservação do Bioma Caatinga (552083/2011-9), PROTAX (562106/2010-3), SISBIOTA (563342/2010-2), Universal (472792/2011-3)] are acknowledged for financing this research.

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  1. Departamento de Micologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Nelson Chaves s/n, Recife, Pernambuco, CEP 50670-420, Brazil

    Tatiana B. Gibertoni, Georgea S. Nogueira-Melo & Carla R. S. de Lira

  2. Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, Maringá, Paraná, CEP 87020-900, Brazil

    Juliano M. Baltazar

  3. Departamento de Zoologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. Prof. Nelson Chaves, s/n, Recife, Pernambuco, CEP 50670-420, Brazil

    Paulo J. P. Santos

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Gibertoni, T.B., Nogueira-Melo, G.S., de Lira, C.R.S. et al. Distribution of poroid fungi (Basidiomycota) in the Atlantic Rain Forest in Northeast Brazil: implications for conservation. Biodivers Conserv 24, 2227–2237 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0991-8

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