Influence of environmental factors and litterfall on the richness of anamorphic fungi in Cayalá Ecological Reserve, Guatemala
Keywords:
Urban forests, asexual fungi, conidial fungi.Abstract
Anamorphic fungi develop in a diversity of habitats that are influenced by factors such as temperature, moisture and the characteristics of the substrate that include the thickness of litterfall. In this research an analysis was made on the influence of the environment, microenvironment and litterfall moisture; environment and microenvironment temperature and the thickness of litterfall in the development of 14 species of anamorphic fungi found in Cayalá Ecological Reserve, an urban forest located in Guatemala City. This analysis was performed via sampling during the rainy season from July to November 2013 and multivariate statistics was used to associate the different variables with the types of fungi. It was determined that the presence of Junewangia globulosa, Neopodocodis megasperma, Bactrodesmium longisporum and Beltrania rhombica was influenced by the thickness of litterfall and the microenvironment temperature while the other species were influenced by the environment, microenvironment and litterfall moisture. It is important to know how the evaluated variables affect the presence of these fungi, due their action on the dynamics of the remaining urban forests to contribute to their conservation through organic decomposition.
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