Figures (2)  Tables (3)

    • Figure 1.  Organization of the present study in three discrete experiments based on comparisons of moist chamber data obtained at two levels for each variable under evaluation.

    • Figure 2.  Cluster analysis carried out with the data from the second experiment showing the Bray Curtis similarities among sub datasets collected at different heights for both studied datasets. F = full dataset, R = reduced dataset. 0, 1 and 2 refer to ground level, 1 m and 2 m above the ground.

    • Species Laboratory one Laboratory two
      0 m 1 m 2 m Subtotal 0 m 1 m 2 m Subtotal
      Arcyria afroalpina 2 1 1 4
      Arcyria cinerea 2 5 4 11 7 6 5 18
      Arcyria insignis 1 1
      Comatricha elegans 1 1
      Comatricha nigra 2 2 1 1
      Comatricha tenerrima 1 1 2
      Cribraria violacea 1 1 2 3 5
      Didymium anellus 1 1 2
      Didymium bahiense 5 7 7 19 1 1
      Didymium difforme 1 2 3 2 2 4
      Didymium minus 2 7 7 16
      Didymium squamulosum 3 2 5 3 1 1 5
      Diderma hemisphaericum 1 2 4 7 4 4 2 10
      Hemitrichia minor 3 1 4
      Hemitrichia pardina 1 1
      Lamproderma scintillans 1 1 3 5 2 2 4
      Perichaena chrysosperma 4 3 6 13 3 3 4 10
      Perichaena pedata 2 4 4 10 1 1
      Physarum compressum 3 6 5 14 5 5 6 16
      Physarum didermoides 2 1 3 6 3 6 4 13
      Physarum pusillum 1 1 2 2 2
      Physarum superbum 1 1
      Stemonitis axifera 1 1
      Stemonitis fusca 1 1 2
      Stemonitopsis aequalis 1 1

      Table 1.  Records of myxomycetes by species observed in the first experiment of the present study arranged by height above the ground

    • Species Full effort Reduced effort
      0 m 1 m 2 m Subtotal 0 m 1 m 2 m Subtotal
      Arcyria afroalpina 1 2 3
      Arcyria cinerea 2 5 4 11 4 2 1 7
      Arcyria insignis 1 1 2 2
      Comatricha nigra 2 2
      Comatricha tenerrima 1 1 2 1 1 2
      Cribraria violacea 1 1 2 2
      Didymium bahiense 5 7 7 19 1 2 2 5
      Didymium clavus 1 1 2
      Didymium difforme 1 2 3 1 2 3
      Didymium iridis 1 1
      Didymium squamulosum 3 2 5 1 4 3 8
      Diderma hemisphaericum 1 2 4 7 2 2
      Hemitrichia minor 3 1 4 1 1 2
      Lamproderma scintillans 1 1 3 5 1 2 3
      Perichaena chrysosperma 4 3 6 13 1 1 1 3
      Perichaena depressa 1 1
      Perichaena pedata 2 4 4 10 1 1
      Physarum compressum 3 6 5 14 5 7 5 17
      Physarum didermoides 2 1 3 6 1 1
      Physarum pusillum 1 1 2 1 1 2
      Physarum superbum 1 1
      Stemonitis fusca 1 1 2

      Table 2.  Records of myxomycetes by species observed in the second experiment of the present study arranged by height above the ground

    • Species Full height sampling Ground level sampling
      Arcyria afroalpina 3 11
      Arcyria cinerea 7 16
      Arcyria insignis 2 6
      Comatricha nigra 3
      Comatricha tenerrima 2 8
      Cribraria violacea 2 2
      Didymium anellus 1
      Didymium bahiense 5 1
      Didymium clavus 2
      Didymium difforme 3 1
      Didymium iridis 1
      Didymium minus 2
      Didymium squamulosum 8
      Diderma hemisphaericum 2 3
      Hemitricha minor 2 1
      Lamproderma scintillans 3 2
      Perichaena chrysosperma 3 2
      Perichaena corticalis 3
      Perichaena depressa 1
      Perichaena pedata 1 2
      Perichaena vermicularis 1
      Physarum compressum 17 3
      Physarum didermoides 1
      Physarum oblatum 1
      Physarum pusillum 2

      Table 3.  Records of myxomycetes by species observed in the third experiment of the present study arranged by sampling type