Small reserves as hotspots for Fungi preservation in Brazil

New records of conidial fungi for Brazil

In order to study the diversity of the leaf litter and aerial litter filamentous fungi, sample were collected from a semi-deciduous seasonal forest located in the Miguel Calmon, state of Bahia, Brazil. Leaf litter and aerial litter samples were collected. Samples were placed in moist chambers. Five conidial fungi were described for the first time in Brazil. Comments about their specimens and di...

Woodland reserves within an urban agglomeration as important refuges for small mammals

The aim of the study was to determine the species richness (S, Chao1 index) and diversity (Shannon–Wiener H’ index, diversity profiles) of small mammal assemblages in woodland reserves in an urban agglomeration and to compare the similarity of assemblages (with the use of Ward’s method) in terms of proportions of small mammals connected to the habitats of different level of naturalness. The wor...

Nature Reserves as Catalysts for Landscape Change

Technique for Long-Term Preservation of Phytopathogenic Fungi

Dahmen, H., Staub, Th., and Schwinn, F. J. 1983. Technique for long-term preservation of phytopathogenic fungi in liquid nitrogen. Phytopathology 73:241-246. Survival, pathogenicity, and sporulation of 31 phytopathogenic fungi temperature or in water at 20 or 40 C. For successful recovery, all (including species from the Myxomycetes, Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, Oomycetes and Colletotrichum lagenari...

Hoppla - Digital Preservation Support for Small Institutions

Small businesses (small office/home office, SOHO) have tremendous amounts of digital information. At the same time, they have little to no expertise on how to manage it, not to mention caring for their long-term preservation, as even simple back-up strategies pose already drastic challenges. This demo presents the Hoppla archiving system to provide digital preservation solutions specifically fo...