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Diversity of Ascomycetous Fungi in the Territories of Protected Areas and in the Areas Evaluated for the Protection in Bosnia- Herzegovina: Establishing Important Fungus Areas (IFA)

The book gives a review of IFA - Important Fungus Area paradigm. Its concept and methodology are upgraded, mainly considering the evaluation principles and criteria for the system to become better tailored for mycobiota and its specificities. The enhanced and systemically defined IFA system and its procedures are explained, tested, and applied to the whole territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina relying on a newly created database including the assessed species with bioindicator values. They are a result of a preceding intensive and long-term inventory of ascomycetous fungi and its habitats conducted by the authors in a number of localities on a national scale. The main goal of a redefined presented IFA system is to achieve more objective and systematic solutions in nature conservation, primarily focusing on objective assessment on endangered fungi as well as on bio-indicated valuable and/or endangered habitat types, but also to position the conservation of fungi as a functional part of a general nature conservation system. The system is proposed as a practical model also for other countries with a comparable situation. According to the presented enhanced IFA system, three new IFA areas are determined, while all previously defined areas are either confirmed or widened in this study. The present IFA system spatially and functionally consists of nine defined standardised areas, representing the whole palette of bioclimatic zones from meso-Mediterranean area to the alpine and continental-montane zone of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Continental peri-Pannonic and colline zones are not evaluated. A review of each IFA area is given by its geographical position and extent, its geological and bioclimatic features as well as its vegetation. A brief history of conservation of each IFA area (if any previously conducted) is given and its bio-indicated values in terms of necessities of conservation are provided on the basis of the IFA's habitat type(s) quality, rarity, endangerment and its importance for fungi. The endangered habitat types as well as flora, fauna, and mycobiota known to the authors are enumerated for each IFA. In total, 42 most important recorded ascomycetous species (endangered and/or rare as well as bio-indicative species) are presented at the end of each IFA chapter by macro- and micro-photographs, a short description of distinctive morphological and ecological features, and data relevant for nature conservation. The IUCN status for each species with corresponding criteria is included. To better depict biodiversity, more than 100 additional species are also illustrated. One new combination (Hydnocystis colomboi) is proposed, while 67 species are reported as new to mycobiota of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

biodiversity ; IFA ; mycobiota of Bosnia-Herzegovina ; nature protection

Knjiga je dvojezična, napisana na engleskom i bosanskom jeziku.