Cedeño M, Clayton M, Stephenson SL 2014 -Woody twigs as a microhabitat for myxomycetes in the upland forests of southwestern Virginia. Mycosphere 5(5), 673-680, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/5/5/8 Abstract The moist chamber culture technique was used to investigate the assemblages of myxomycetes associated with woody twigs in five different types of upland forest communities in the Mountain Lake area of southwestern Virginia. The myxomycetes of these same five forest communities had been studied

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... ively during the period of 1982-1986, but at that time woody twigs had not been recognized as a distinct microhabitat for this group of microorganisms. In the present study, samples of woody twigs collected in June 2013 were used to prepare a series of 60 moist chamber cultures. Fifty-nine of the 60 cultures (98%) yielded fruiting bodies of myxomycetes, and 23 species in 10 genera were recorded from 148 specimens. Arcyria cinerea was the single most common species and represented 35% of all records. Only nine other species were recorded from >5 cultures, and nine species were represented by only a single record. Mycosphere 5 (5): 673-680 (2014) ISSN 2077 7019 www.mycosphere.org Article Mycosphere