- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Myxomycetes of Panola Mountain State Park, 1978
- Creator:
- Miner, G. David
- Date of Original:
- 1978-02-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The objective of this study was to survey the myxomycete population as it exists at Panola Mountain State Park, concentrating on those species found living on natural litter such as rotting logs, grass, leaves, and twigs. Some samples were taken from the bark of living trees but this substrate was not collected from frequently. The collecting area was restricted by the property boundaries of Panola Mountain State Park, a natural area day-use park located eighteen miles southeast of Atlanta on Georgia 155. Collections were made throughout this 537 acre tract of park land. Sampling began during the early summer of 1976 and continued through early fall of 1977. There were thirty species of myxomycetes collected during this study. Those species collected were as follows: Arcyria cinerea, A. denudata, A. incarnata, Comatricha aequalis, C. pulchella, Craterium leuco- cephalum, C. minutum, Cribraria lanquescence, C. micro- carpa, Diachea leucopodia, Dictydium cancellatum, Didy- mium nigripes, D. ovoideum, D. squamulosum/ Fuligo septica, Hemitrichia calyculata, Lamproderma arcyrionema, L. scintillans, Lycogola epidendrum, Metatrichia vesparium, Physarum bivalve, P. leucophaeum, P. mellemn, P. nutans, P. polycephalum, P. superbum, P. viride, Stemonitis auxi- fera, S. fusca, and Tubifera microsperma. All of the species collected have been reported as found in Georgia. Many of the species were reported by Pendergrass in his studies of myxomycetes living on the bark of living trees at Panola Mountain State Park and other areas in and around Atlanta.
Degree type: thesis
Degree name: Master of Science (MS)
Department: Department of Biology
Advisor: Frederick, Lafayette - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1978_miner_g_david.pdf
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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