naa a22 4500 510759319 CHVBK 20180411083133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13225-012-0183-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13225-012-0183-8 Biodiversity studies of myxomycetes in Madagascar [Elektronische Daten] [Diana Wrigley de Basanta, Carlos Lado, Arturo Estrada-Torres, Steven Stephenson] The results of the first comprehensive study of myxomycetes from the island of Madagascar, a world biodiversity hotspot, are reported in this paper. The island is of continental origin, the fourth largest in the world, and has been geographically isolated for more than 160 million years, since its separation from Gondwanaland. The isolation, size and topography of Madagascar have triggered the development of a great variety of different habitats and favoured multiple evolutionary pathways, resulting in many animals and plants that exist nowhere else on earth. Fieldwork for the biodiversity survey of the central and southern parts of the island took place in May 2009, to coincide with the end of the rainy season. Tropical moist forest, sclerophyll forest and dry forest were selected for sampling in Ranomafana, Andringitra, Andohahela and L'Isalo National Parks. Some unique vegetation was sampled in the spiny dry forest and succulent scrub with plants from the genera Alluaudia, Euphorbia, Kalanchoe and Pachypodium. The survey produced 124 species from 22 different genera in more than 750 myxomycete collections. In this paper one species, Perichaena madagascariensis, is described as new to science, 21 species are new records for Africa, and 106 are reported for the first time from Madagascar. Some unusual collections included Physarum lakhanpalii that appeared on Ravenala madagascariensis, Fuligo intermedia and Licea nannengae found on Adansonia grandidieri, Perichaena pulcherrima, Physarum dictyosporum, and P. echinosporum on Euphorbia and Licea rufocuprea on bark. The scope, methods and results of this survey are included in this paper, and comments are made on the ecology, distribution and substrate association of the myxomycetes of these areas of Madagascar. Macrographs, micrographs and SEM images of interesting species are included. The results indicate that the island of Madagascar has a unique assemblage of species of myxomycetes, different from neighbouring islands and from similar but distant environments. Mushroom Research Foundation, 2012 Amoebozoa nationallicence Biogeography nationallicence Endemism nationallicence Myxogastria nationallicence SEM nationallicence Spiny forest nationallicence Wrigley de Basanta Diana Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo, 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain aut Lado Carlos Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo, 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain aut Estrada-Torres Arturo Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Apartado Postal 183, Tlaxcala 90,000, Tlaxcala, Mexico aut Stephenson Steven Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA aut Fungal Diversity Springer Netherlands 59/1(2013-03-01), 55-83 1560-2745 59:1<55 2013 59 13225 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-012-0183-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-012-0183-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wrigley de Basanta Diana Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo, 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lado Carlos Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Plaza de Murillo, 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Estrada-Torres Arturo Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Apartado Postal 183, Tlaxcala 90,000, Tlaxcala, Mexico aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stephenson Steven Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, 72701, Fayetteville, AR, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fungal Diversity Springer Netherlands 59/1(2013-03-01), 55-83 1560-2745 59:1<55 2013 59 13225 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer