Regional Monitoring of Natural Environment 2002, No 3, 53-55
POSSIBILITIES AND WAYS OF USING FUNGI IN ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Janusz Łuszczyński
Summary
The article presents selected examples of the use of macromycetes fungi in the local monitoring of the biological environment and in the monitoring of the physical parameters of the environment. The experimental methods used in the investigation of macromycetes fungi, such as fixed investigation areas, fulfil the basic assumptions of monitoring. The biological sensitivity of fungi to various kinds of environmental changes perfectly predisposes this group for monitoring investigation. In this investigation the fungi can be perceived as the investigation object and they can be themselves indicators of changes in the environment.
