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e found. In addition, one of the unique edible mushrooms collected during the spring time, mainly in dessert areas of the country, is the desert "false Truffles" Terfezia and Tirmania.
Which has more diverse assemblages of myxomycetes: tropical forests or temperate forests? Particular groups of plants and animals become increasingly more diverse as one nears the equator. Is this pattern also true for slime molds (or myxomycetes)? This is what Dr. Thomas Edison dela Cruz would like to answer. Dr dela Cruz, the Philippine representative to the Asia Mycology Committee and a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, is currently working on a project with Dr. Steve Stephenson at the University of Arkansas in the United States. Dr. dela Cruz was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by the prestigious Fulbright Commission. He and Stephenson, who is a former Fulbright scholar (at Himachal Pradesh University in India) himself, are comparing the myxomycete assemblages associated with three well-defined microhabitats in forests of the tropics and temperate zones. Samples of aerial litter, ground litter and dead twigs were collected from three lowland dipterocarp forests in the Philippines. These were Mt. Palay-Palay National Park in Ternate, Cavite; the Subic Forest Reserve in Subic, Zambales; and Bataan National Park in Morong, Bataan. Comparable samples also were collected from three types of temperate forests in Arkansas. The forests sampled were an oak-hickory forest in Devil’s Den State Park, a mixed oak forest in Pea Ridge National Historical Park, and a beech-dominated forest in the Lost Valley area of the Buffalo National River. With the assistance of Dr. Hanh Tran, a faculty member at Ho Chi Minh International University in Vietnam and also a Fulbright scholar at the University of Arkansas, sets of moist chamber cultures were prepared from the samples and are being monitored to assess myxomycete species diversity. Preliminary data appear to show higher diversity for tropical forests than temperate forests. At least 43 species of myxomycetes belonging to 17 genera have been recorded thus far for substrates collected in the Philippines, whereas only 29 species representing 18 genera have appeared in moist chamber cultures prepared from substrates collected in Arkansas. Several of the species from the Philippines are new records for the country. Twigs clearly have been the most productive substrate, regardless of where they were collected. However, as the project continues, it
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