Sammanfattning

We review the state of fungal conservation in Europe. Despite a large public interest in fungi, they are often insufficiently considered in the conservation initiatives of most countries and not adequately heeded in international biodiversity agreements. We attribute this to the generally low profile of fungi among conservation stakeholders and decision makers together with limited efforts of mycological scientists to put mycological knowledge into a conservation context. Recent advances in mycological knowledge, taxonomy, distribution, ecology and threats now categorically enable fungi to be included within national and European conservation agendas. 33 European countries have produced fungal Red-Lists reporting the status of macrofungi and these are official in 20 countries. These lists indicate that at least 10% of European larger fungi are threatened, mainly due to changing land use and nitrogen deposition. Fungal biodiversity may benefit from many general conservation efforts, but many specific fungus values are also overlooked. We advocate increased interaction between scientists and conservation coordinators and practitioners, greater promotion of fungi and their conservation and ecosystem service values by mycologists, the production of a European fungal Red-List and the need to integrate fungi with animals and plants in conservation issues. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd and The British Mycological Society. All rights reserved.

Nyckelord

Conservation; Europe; Macrofungi; Management; Red-List; Threat

Publicerad i

Fungal Ecology
2010, Volym: 3, nummer: 2, sidor: 50-64

SLU författare

• Dahlberg, Anders

  • Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • SLU Artdatabanken, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Biologisk mångfald


Globala målen

SDG15 Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald
SDG13 Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser


UKÄ forskningsämne

Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2009.10.004

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/28950