Project Overview

Creation of a database of known fungal species in Vermont, which will aggregate and digitize disparate fungal data sets to expand the relevance of future research related to carbon storage, old-growth characterization, forest regeneration capacity, conservation needs, and natural community assemblage patterning. The database will be used to create a checklist of fungi that currently and historically existed in Vermont and will be published and maintained at the Vermont Atlas of Life Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) server to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as a Darwin Core Standard (DwC) checklist dataset and archived with the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative. This checklist will be publicly available to expand on research and knowledge of fungi’s contribution to our New England forests.

Objectives

1) creation of a database of the known fungal species that have been documented in Vermont, 2) to conduct two fungal forays in rare and/or threatened natural communities for species distribution and abundance to supplement the database.

Dataset Availability

Downloadable: 3 datasets

Tags

Status - Completed

Start date: 2024-05-31

End date: 2025-08-01

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