Terrestrial Macrofungal Diversity from the Tropical Dry Evergreen Biome of Southern India and Its Potential Role in Aerobiology
Fig 4
Source vs. Ambient spore morphological similarities.
Panel of figures (Sa–Sc) at the top show manually extracted fungal spores identified to the species level. Panel of figures (Aa–Ac) at the bottom show the fungal spores collected from the ambient air on a polycarbonate filter paper as reported by Valsan et al., 2015 [41]. It is to be noted that the ambient fungal spores reported and depicted here were mainly observed during the NE monsoon season, the season with the fungal bloom. Both of the studies are from the same study region, IIT Madras and from same season of October–January (monsoon and winter in southern India, Chennai). Kindly refer Valsan et al., 2015 [41] for further details regarding the bioaerosols SEM study.