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Plant Biology

2020

Honors Theses

Mycology

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A Contribution To The Macrofungi Of Cloudland Canyon State Park, Peyden Valentine May 2020

A Contribution To The Macrofungi Of Cloudland Canyon State Park, Peyden Valentine

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I conducted a survey of the macroscopic fungi within Cloudland Canyon State Park, Dade County, GA that consisted of twenty-three forays from May through December of 2019, and one foray in March 2020. The results of my survey add baseline data to our knowledge of the mushrooms present within the park, allow for the future construction of an All Taxa Biodiversity Index, and allow comparisons to other surveys of fungal diversity in similar areas of the Cumberland Plateau: the Tennessee River Gorge Trust (Starrett 2005), and the Lula Lake Land Trust (De Guzman 2000). My survey resulted in an overall …