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Global warming and mycoflora in the Baltic Region
By Hanns Kreisel (2006)
Up to date (2006), only a few mycologists, and only in a few special cases, have discussed the consequences of global warming. But there is an interesting paper of Dutch lichenologists (Herk et al. 2002) who have found, basing on a long-term monitoring, that many tropical and subtropical species of epiphytic and terrestrial lichen species are invading the Netherlands, while already 50% of the arctic-alpine and boreomontane species shows a decline.
In non-lichenized larger fungi, experiences and publications from central and northern Europe, in particular from countries around the Baltic Sea, show that a number of species is moving from southern countries (mainly the submediterranean region) to north.
One of the fungus showing that distribution pattern is Mutinus elegans (pictured), a species of North American origin in the family Phallaceae, commonly named Elegant stinkhorn, Dog stinkhorn, Headless stinkhorn, or Devil’s dipstick.
Mutinus elegans was first noted in Europe in 1929, at Lago Maggiore in northern Italy. The chronology of subsequent records of this fungus allow to locate this species in the following sites: lower Rhine valley in north-western Germany (1936); near Karlsruhe (1948); Saxonia (1977); Berlin (1982); near Pasewalk in north-eastern Germany (1984), the last being actually the northernmost locality in Europe. In the Netherlands it was found only 1989 near Ede. There are no records from Denmark, Scandinavia, and Poland.
Mutinus elegans (along with several other species of native fungi) has expanded continuously its distribution on Europe, from south to north, in the frame of their climatic ecological amplitudes.
Apart of anthropochory and climatic evolution, a third factor seems to have influence on expansion of fungal areas: the eutrophication, in particular with nitrogen, by excessive and careless enrichment of landscape with nutrients and fertilizers.
Photo credit: ©Erminio Ferrari | Mutinus elegans from Italy.

DEVIL’S DIPSTICK? OMG :-P

Global warming and mycoflora in the Baltic Region

By Hanns Kreisel (2006)

Up to date (2006), only a few mycologists, and only in a few special cases, have discussed the consequences of global warming. But there is an interesting paper of Dutch lichenologists (Herk et al. 2002) who have found, basing on a long-term monitoring, that many tropical and subtropical species of epiphytic and terrestrial lichen species are invading the Netherlands, while already 50% of the arctic-alpine and boreomontane species shows a decline.

In non-lichenized larger fungi, experiences and publications from central and northern Europe, in particular from countries around the Baltic Sea, show that a number of species is moving from southern countries (mainly the submediterranean region) to north.

One of the fungus showing that distribution pattern is Mutinus elegans (pictured), a species of North American origin in the family Phallaceae, commonly named Elegant stinkhorn, Dog stinkhorn, Headless stinkhorn, or Devil’s dipstick.

Mutinus elegans was first noted in Europe in 1929, at Lago Maggiore in northern Italy. The chronology of subsequent records of this fungus allow to locate this species in the following sites: lower Rhine valley in north-western Germany (1936); near Karlsruhe (1948); Saxonia (1977); Berlin (1982); near Pasewalk in north-eastern Germany (1984), the last being actually the northernmost locality in Europe. In the Netherlands it was found only 1989 near Ede. There are no records from Denmark, Scandinavia, and Poland.

Mutinus elegans (along with several other species of native fungi) has expanded continuously its distribution on Europe, from south to north, in the frame of their climatic ecological amplitudes.

Apart of anthropochory and climatic evolution, a third factor seems to have influence on expansion of fungal areas: the eutrophication, in particular with nitrogen, by excessive and careless enrichment of landscape with nutrients and fertilizers.

Photo credit: ©Erminio Ferrari | Mutinus elegans from Italy.