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206 SCIENTIFIC POSTER SESSION | FOYERSCIENTIFIC POSTER SESSION | FOYER207Free contributionFree contributionBOTANICAL AND FIRST ZOOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DESICCATION-TOLERANT, MAT-FORMING MONOCOTS ON INSELBERGS IN IVORYCOASTFUNGAL BIODIVERSITY IN SOUTH-WESTERN CHINANikola Korte 1 , Stefan Porembski 1 , Souleymane Konaté 2 , Hervé KouakouKouadio 2Gerhard Kost 11University of Rostock, Rostock, DE, nikola.korte@uni-rostock.de, 2 Universitéd’Abobo-Adjamé, Abidjan, CI1University of Marburg, Marburg, DE, kost@staff.uni-marburg.deWEDNESDAY | FOYERThe Cyperaceae Afrotrilepis pilosa is a desiccation-tolerant, mat-formingspecies that frequently colonizes West African inselbergs. Combined botanicaland zoological research was carried out to measure, for the first time, thegrowth rate of individuals and to make an inventory of arthropods living in themats in Ivory Coast. On the botanical side, a growth rate of up to 37 cm per leafwas detected over a period of three months. A high seasonal leaf turn-over wasfound as outer leaves were shed very quickly. On the zoological side, a shiftin species dominance and distribution between the drier savanna regions andthe wetter rain forest zone was apparent. Several ant species (Formicidae) wereabundant in all zones; millipedes were very common in the rain forest zone.Outside A. pilosa mats an exceedingly high rate of termites (up to 10 species)were identified in a relatively small area (i.e. one inselberg), which is very rare inother terrestrial ecosystems.In the South-West of PR China one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world islocated. Therefore the region of three parallel rivers was declared as a worldheritage. The province Yunnan is extraordinarily rich in species of Agaricales(agarics). Higher fungi with colourful fruit-bodies in various forms were collectedin biotops with diverse ecology from lowland tropical and subtropical forestsup to alpine meadows. The complex topography and geography combinedwith highly variable climate, luxuriant vegetation, and other environmentaland biological factors provide a wide variety of favourable niches for thegrowth and reproduction of higher fungi. To date, more than 3000 speciesbelonging to about 1000 genera of higher fungi have been reported fromYunnan. In our Sino-German cooperative mycological project (University ofMarburg and Kunming Institute of Botany KIB) we started to study the stillinsufficient investigated α-taxonomy of Yunnan agaric Basidiomycota and theirphylogeographic relationships. Pantropic distributed fungi could be found inthe tropical regions of Yunnan as well as some species, which are endemic inthe tropical Asia. Although this region is actually protected by law, key habitatsare still threatened by intensively logging, mining and farming.Wednesday WEDNESDAY 16:00 | FOYER | FoyergtöSociety for Tropical Ecology | Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie e.V. Status and future of tropical biodiversity | Frankfurt, 21 - 24 February 2011gtö