Georeferenced checklist and occurrence dataset of slime moulds (Eumycetozoa) across Central and Eastern Europe emphasising forest ecosystems.

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Background

A continental-scale, georeferenced checklist of slime moulds (Eumycetozoa) for Central and Eastern Europe, supplemented with standardised environmental covariates and with a particular emphasis on forest ecosystems, has not previously been available. The absence of a harmonised corpus has constrained statistically supported tests of habitat- and substrate-related patterns and limited objective gap-mapping, particularly within forest ecosystems, where microclimatic buffering, dead-wood continuity and stand history are expected to be decisive; it has also hindered rigorous evaluation of slime moulds' role as bioindicators of forest habitat types, substrate associations and gradients in anthropogenic pressure (naturalness).

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SUBMITTER: Pawlowicz T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673333 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature