Results of myxomycete experiments could be affected by temperature in “standard” laboratory conditions
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2023-02-20Autor
Rojas Alvarado, Carlos Alonso
Valverde González, Randall
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Moist chamber cultures are valuable for myxomycete
research and can be used for the analysis of
ecological patterns with implications in ecosystem
conservation programs. However, to make
comparisons between datasets valid, the method
should be redesigned considering potential biases
affecting the generation of results. In the present
study, both the effect of the general climate of the
laboratory and two microclimatic variables within
the moist chamber were studied in relation with
the obtained data. Of all the recorded variables,
temperature was observed to affect the results, both
at the level of the general laboratory climate and in
relation with the microclimate of the moist chamber.
Increments in laboratory and moist chamber
temperature increased the probability, three or fourfold,
associated with a higher number of records or
species within a group of equivalent samples. Such
probabilistic differences are significant enough to
suggest that using the moist chamber technique in
“standard” laboratory conditions is not enough for
cross-dataset comparisons that increase the potential
of myxomycete data for applications outside of
the biological sciences.
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10.29203/ka.2022.515Colecciones
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