Saturday 23 June – Linda Garrett Reserve Foray

"Fungal diversity in maritime Antarctic soils" Dr Paul Dennis is a Lecturer in Soil and Environmental Science in UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, where he also runs a research group focussing on microbial ecology. Paul graduated from the University of Bangor in North Wales with a BSc hons in Environmental Science in 2002….

Dominated by sandy soils typical of the Great Sandy National Park, the plants and their fungal mycorrhizal partners of Cooloola have had to adapt to these low nutrient soils. The resulting diversity of Boletes, in particular, makes this a global hot spot for fungal diversity. For more details, go to our page about Cooloola National…

Please note that no more forays are planned for 2015. For more details, go to our Calendar of Events.

The Annual General Meeting. Dave Wood was to present "Fungal Genomics", but this has been postponed. Instead, Fran Guard will be speaking about some dry country fungi that she encountered during her recent trip south and west.

This foray has been cancelled due to the dry weather and lack of fungi. 65 km north of Brisbane and linked to the mainland by road bridge, nearly a third of Bribie Island’s land area is protected by National Parks. As a sand island, it has a unique ecosystem and this will be reflected in…

Patrick Leonard – The Genus Lactarius Diana Leemon – Microscopic Mechanisms