Operation wallacea in Egypt.1- a preliminary study on diversity of fungi in the world heritage site of saint katherine, Egypt
2009
Abdel-Azeem, A.M.
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects designed to underpin the achievement of specific wildlife conservation aims. Expeditions under this program are now operating in six countries. In 2005, the expeditions were operated for the first time in Egypt in which various habitats were screened. Mycobiota of leaf surfaces, soil, air, and herbivore dung were surveyed in Wadi El- Arbaein, Saint Katherine Protectorate of South Sinai, Egypt. From all samples and habitats, 101 taxa with two new Egyptian records were encountered. According to the scheme proposed by Kirk et al. (2001) reported taxa were assigned to fifty-five genera, twenty two families, fifteen orders, six subclasses, six classes and three phyla. In view of this classification system many taxa with uncertain position (incertae sedis) were distributed among different taxonomic ranks. Species richness at the substrate level revealed that herbivore dung proved to be the richest showing 51 species followed by soil (39 species), leaf surface (31 species) and air (19 species). At the generic level, species richness indicated that Aspergillus was first with 15 species, followed by Penicillium (9 species) Chaetomium (6 species) and Fusarium (5 species).
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