Coprophilous Fungi

Krug, J. C.; Benny, Gerald L.; Keller, Harold W.

doi:10.1016/b978-012509551-8/50024-6

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“…Then, they will be con sumed by her bivores, pass through their in tes tines, and again will be de posited with fae ces (Bell, 2005). Ac cord ing to Krug et al (2004), most of the coprophilous fungi are found on mam malian dung from do mes ti cated farm an i mals, such as cat tle, horses, and sheep; from wild mam mals, both her biv o rous and car niv o rous; and from birds.…”

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fungi that in habit or are as so ci ated with the dung of an imals are known as coprophilous fungi (Krug et al, 2004). These fungi are uniquely adapted to her bi vore dung.…”

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ac cord ing to Lundqvist (1972), rep re sen ta tives of the Sordariaceae (Ascomycetes) are mostly coprophilous, par tic u larly the gen era Sporormiella, Podospora, Sordaria, and Cercophora, which are the most com mon ones among dung fungi (e.g. Krug et al 2004;van Geel et al, 2007). More over, these fungi pro duce thick-walled spores that are well pre served in palynological prep a ra tions, and can be iden ti fied and counted along side pol len, and this makes it fea si ble to use them in the cat e gory of sec ond ary anthropogenic in di ca tors (van Geel et al, 2003;López-Sáez and López-Me rino, 2011).…”

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Krug et al, (2004) un der lined that ger mi na tion, growth, and sporulation oc cur on freshly de pos ited dung. In the next phase, the spores are dis charged force fully into the air and readily ad here to nearby veg e ta tion.…”

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Anthropogenic Transformation of the Vegetation in the Immediate Vicinity of the Settlement Complex at Poganowo (Mrągowo Lakeland, Ne Poland)

Szal¹,

Kupryjanowicz²,

Wyczółkowski³

2015

Studia Quaternaria

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Ab stractThe re sults of pol len, non-pol len palynomorph and microcharcoal par ti cle anal y ses of de pos its from a small pond in north east ern Po land are pre sented. The study fo cused on hu man-in duced veg e ta tion changes that oc curred in a close vi cin ity of the set tle ment com plex at Poganowo dur ing the Mid dle Ages (ca 10 th -16 th cen tu ries). We dis tin guished three phases of hu man im pact. First and third phases cor re spond to in ten si fied set tle ment ac tiv ity. The sec ond phase was a pe riod when hu man ac tiv ity de creased and wood land re gen er a tion took place. The high in ci dence of the par asitic fun gus Kretzschmaria deusta in a lo cal for est stand dur ing the third phase was si mul ta neous with nu mer ous spores of coprophilous fungi (Sordaria-type and Cercophora-type). We con sider that Kretzschmaria deusta in hab ited the roots and bases of tree trunks dam aged by dig ging and graz ing an i mals.Key words: hu man im pact, pol len anal y sis, fun gal spores, Masuria, Mid dle Ages. Mansuscipt re ceived 1 December 2014, ac cepted 1 June 2015 IN TRO DUC TIONA use of in di ca tor char ac ter is tics of some plant taxa, as well as of other or gan isms, is a fun da men tal method in palaeo ec ol ogy, en abling re con struc tion of past en vi ronments (e.g. Birks, 2003;Lata³owa et al., 2013). Among the microfossils that are ob served in pol len slides, fungi, al gae and other non-pol len palynomorphs (NPP) have be come partic u larly im por tant, be cause of their po ten tial to im prove recon struc tion of past eco sys tems (van Geel, 2001;van der Lin den et al., 2012). Van Geel and Aptroot (2006) un derlined that fun gal re mains are of high po ten tial in this con text. In par tic u lar, these au thors em pha sized the im por tance of fun gal taxa with well-char ac ter ized bi o log i cal and eco log ical re quire ments, e.g. Sporormiella sp. and Sordaria sp., which are in di ca tors for dung, or Kretzschmaria deusta, a par a site on de cay ing wood, in di cat ing pres ence of their host trees. How ever, a palaeo eco logi cal po ten tial of fun gal remains has not yet been fully ex plored. We pres ent re sults of palynological anal y sis in the frame work of in ter dis ci plin ary re search pro ject con ducted in the set tle ment com plex at Poganowo Wyczó³kowski et al., 2013). This set tle ment com plex is lo cated en tirely in a for est, and nearby there are nu mer ous small peat bogs and ponds suitable for lo cal-scale veg e ta tion re con struc tions (com pare Sugita et al., 2007). Our main ob jec tive was to study transfor ma tion of veg e ta tion caused by hu man ac tiv ity. Moreover, by the ap pli ca tion of NPP and microcharcoal par ti cle anal y sis we tried to char ac ter ize farm ing mod els, as sum ing the pos si bil ity of at trib ut ing the pres ence of spores of coprophilous fungi (e.g. Sordaria-type, Sporormiella-type) to land-use prac tices, par tic u larly hus bandry. AR CHAE O LOG I CAL AND HIS TOR I CAL BACK GROUNDThe set tle ment com plex at Poganowo ...

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Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fungi that in habit or are as so ci ated with the dung of an imals are known as coprophilous fungi (Krug et al, 2004). These fungi are uniquely adapted to her bi vore dung.…”

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Palaeo Eco Logi Cal Con Text Of the Fun Gal Spores Re Cordmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Anthropogenic Transformation of the Vegetation in the Immediate Vicinity of the Settlement Complex at Poganowo (Mrągowo Lakeland, Ne Poland)

Szal¹,

Kupryjanowicz²,

Wyczółkowski³

2015

Studia Quaternaria

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“…This method is most often used for fungi growing on leaves or small woody debris, such as ascomycetes (e.g., Polishook et al, 1996;Rambelli et al, 2004) and slime molds (e.g., Snittler and Stephenson, 2000), and fungi growing on dung (Bills and Polishook, 1993;Krug et al, 2004;Richardson, 2001;Rossman et al, 1998). The substrata are usually placed on moist paper towels in an inflated plastic bag or in a container with a lid.…”

Section: Moist Chambersmentioning

confidence: 99%