个人简历

Prof Peter Mortimer is a soil ecologist for the Kunming Institute of Botany. After having completed his PhD in plant physiology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Peter took up his current position in Kunming where he runs the Soil Biology Group. The group specializes on various aspects of soil ecology, but the main focus of the group is mycology, including the ecology of macro and microfungi, fungal biogeography, and fungal taxonomy. In addition, Peter and his research team work on the documentation of traditional knowledge relating to the use and trade of mushrooms, and how mushrooms can be used as a means of rural development in Asia.

研究领域

Mycology (fungal biogeography, taxonomy, ecology), forest ecology, Agroforestry

近期论文

1. Hyde, K. D., Xu, J., Rapior, S., Jeewon, R., Lumyong, S., Niego, A. G. T., ... & Chaiyasen, A. (2019). The amazing potential of fungi: 50 ways we can exploit fungi industrially. Fungal Diversity, 1-136.
2. Bebber, D. P., Field, E., Gui, H., Mortimer, P., Holmes, T., & Gurr, S. J. (2019). Many unreported crop pests and pathogens are probably already present. Global Change Biology.
3. Ye, L., Li, H., Mortimer, P. E., Xu, J., Gui, H., Karunarathna, S. C., ... & Shi, L. (2019). Substrate Preference Determines Macrofungal Biogeography in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region. Forests, 10(10), 824.
4. Tibpromma S, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Bhat DJ, Phillips Alan JL, Wanasinghe DN, Samarakoon MC, Jayawardena RS, Dissanayake AJ, Tennakoon DS, Doilom M, Phookamsak R, Tang AMC, Xu J, Mortimer PE, Promputtha I, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Khan S, Karunarathna SC (2018) Fungal diversity notes 840–927: Micro-fungi associated with Pandanaceae. Fungal Diversity 93 (1): 1-160
5. Li HL, Ostermann A, Karunarathna SC, Xu, JC., Hyde KD, Mortimer PE* (2018) The importance of plot size and the number of sampling seasons on capturing macrofungal species richness. Fungal biology 122(7): 692-700
6. Li HL, Guo JY, Goldberg SD, Sreekar R, Ye L, Luo X, ..., Mortimer PE* (2018) Fruiting patterns of macrofungi in tropical and temperate land use types in Yunnan Province, China. Acta oecologica 91: 7-15
7. Gellie NJ, Breed MF, Mortimer PE, Harrison RD, Xu JC, Lowe AJ (2018) Networked and embedded scientific experiments in restoration will improve outcomes. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 16(5): 288-294
8. Monkai J, Goldberg SD, Hyde KD, Harrison RD, Mortimer PE, Xu JC (2018) Natural forests maintain a greater soil microbial diversity than that in rubber plantations in Southwest China. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 265: 190-197
9. Monkai J, Hyde KD, Xu JC, Mortimer PE* (2017) Diversity and ecology of soil fungal communities in rubber plantations. Fungal Biology Reviews 31(1): 1-11