Alison Pouliot & Becky McCann Driving along the Princes Highway through the highly modified agricultural catchments of Victoria’s western district, one might not be expect to find a fungal paradise. Tucked away among treeless, rocky paddocks of the Victo...
Author: Poly
Fungimap AGM 2019
Notice is hereby given of the 2019 Fungimap Inc. Annual General Meeting which will be held on Thursday 2 May in Perth, WA, at 5:30 pm local time which equates to 7:30 pm EST and 7:00 pm Australian Central Daylight Time. Location: 21 Rankin Rd, Shenton Park, Pe...
Taxonomy Aust website goes live
Are you fascinated by Australia’s biodiversity, it’s plants, fungi and creatures great and small? Did you know that thousands of new species are discovered and described by Australia’s taxonomists every year? Or that an estimated 70% of Australia’s spe...
Can you help assess threat status?
An Australasian Fungi Red List Workshop will be held in Melbourne, at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, 22-26 July 2019, organised by the Australasian Mycological Society Conservation Group. The purpose of the workshop is to carry out formal threat assessments o...
The conservation crisis facing fungi
Having a comprehensive understanding of fungi – their distribution, populations and reproduction – will be critical to understanding the threats to their conservation. But we’ve got a long way to go, says one expert (Alison Pouliot). A great article by A...