FIRST RESULTS ON STUDY OF THE SHANTAR ISLANDS MYCOBIOTA

Abstract

Preliminary results of the first mycological expedition to the Shantar Islands, where the Federal national park of the same name has been operating since 2013, have been summed up. It includes 15 large and small Islands with adjacent waters. We were able to study the basidiomycetes and ascomycetes species diversity in plant communities on two of them – Bolshoy Shantar and Prokofiev islands. The main feature of the identified mycobiota is the abundance of boreal species that are rarely found in the continental part of the Far East and the weak participation of both background boreal and endemic Far Eastern species.