Mycological models of arboreal plants and methodology of environmental information analysis

Abstract

The article presents an original methodology for collecting and processing mycological information on arboreal plants. Symbiotrophic fungi on arboreal plants are distributed into 18 ecological niches, which are organs and parts of a plant. For each type of fungus, 6 main parameters are fixed, which determine its location in an ecological niche: ecotope, the age of the plant, its condition, the size of the substrate, as well as the intensity and prevalence of the fungus on a tree. Each fungus occurrence is displayed on a schematic drawing of the tree morphological structure, which is the basis for constructing a mycological model. Taking into account the ecological niches and parameters of fungi that are fixed, it is possible to obtain from 100 to 120 units of mycological information on the biology and ecology of fungi on one tree. An algorithm for processing mycological information is proposed and examples of compiling mycological models are given.