Description
Data from the project «Fungi in Norway’s Coastal Heathlands” (FiNCH) funded by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Center. The project inventoried above- and below-ground ascomycetous fungi in 8 coastal heathlands in Vestland county, Norway, and one heathland in the Dividalen region of Norway.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 26 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Davey M (2023): Fungi in Norwegian Coastal Heathlands. v1.7. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.nina.no/resource?r=funginorcoastheath&v=1.7
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e8c7beb7-91ea-477e-91ba-8666b4207a1e. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Checklist; Fungi; Coastal Heathlands
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Geographic Coverage
Norway
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [59.599, 4.806], North East [68.7, 19.9] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Ascomycota, Basidiomycota
| Kingdom | Fungi |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2018-08-07 / 2019-11-15 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Fungi in Norway’s Coastal Heathlands |
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| Funding | Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre |
| Study Area Description | A total of 8 coastal heathland localities were inventoried spanning a 2.17 degrees of latitude along the Norwegian coastline in the Vestland county. The sites experience similar climatic conditions, with mean annual temperatures ranging from 6.6 to 7.7°C and mean annual precipitation ranging from 1614 to 2202 mm. Management regimes and plant communities varied across the eight localities, but all were grazed, intact heathlands. Some of the localities like Lygra were clearly still managed using the old farming practices, including burning, cutting and grazing, while other, such as Bømlo, showed signs of secondary succession from Juniperus commune and Betula pubescens. |
| Design Description | The belowground mycoflora was inventoried from six focal ericaceous species: Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralix, Erica cinerea, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium uliginosum, and Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Fungi were isolated from surface sterilized root fragments and identified using DNA metabarcoding of the ITS2 region of rDNA as described in Davey and Blaalid (2021). Aboveground microfungi were collected from litter, stems and leaves of heathland plants along random walk transects. Ascomycete fungi were identified morphologically. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
All plants were collected a minimum of 25m from edges, with at least 10 m between individual plants.
| Study Extent | Root systems were collected from six focal ericaceous species in each of 8 coastal heathlands. |
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Method step description:
- Litter, stems, and leaves with visible fungal structures were collected along random walk transects in all 8 localities.
Additional Metadata
Habitat Protection Approaches Facilitate Conservation of Overlooked Fungal Diversity – A Case Study From the Norwegian Coastal Heathland System: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffunb.2022.886685/full
| Alternative Identifiers | e8c7beb7-91ea-477e-91ba-8666b4207a1e |
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| https://ipt.nina.no/resource?r=funginorcoastheath |