Studies of Nivicolous Myxomycetes

During the period from 1985 until 2006, the author had the opportunity to collect and study nivicolous (“snowbank”) myxomycetes in the northern Rocky Mountains, the Himalayan Mountains of northwestern India, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and the mountains (including Mount Kosciuszko) of southwestern Australia. Members of this ecological group of myxomycetes are largely restricted to alpine areas of mountains, where they are found fruiting along the margins of melting snowbanks in late spring and early summer. He also notes two atypical occurrences of nivicolous myxomycetes.