THE NATIONAL RED LIST OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Pilatotrama ljubarskyi

Pilatotrama ljubarskyi

Macedonian

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Taxonomy
Assessment info
Population
Habitat and Ecology
Threats
Use and Trade
Conservation Actions
Bibliography

Taxonomy

Scientific name

Pilatotrama ljubarskyi

Authority

(Pilát) Zmitrovich

Synonyms

Trametes ljubarskyi Pilát

Assessment info

IUCN Red List Category and Criteria

Vulnerable D1

Date assessed

November 2020

Assessors

Karadelev, M.

Reviewers

Kost, G.

Ivančević, B.

Contributors

Rusevska, K.

Facilitators

Miskovic, M.

Justification

The species is known from several localities, one of them located in Jasen nature reserve, which is a protected area. The other sites are not protected, and the habitats are under anthropogenic pressure. The total number of recorded individuals is about 50. The impact is manifested by host habitat degradation and/or fragmentation caused by logging given that the species is commonly associated with a single host. Fires during summer season are another serious threat. Nevertheless, beech communities are widely distributed in the country; thus the predicted number of specimens would be approximately 500.

Population

Current population trend

Decreasing

Description

Pilatotrama ljubarskyi is a rare species, found individually or with a few fruiting bodies
on all known sites, and the number of known fruiting bodies is minor, totalling
approximately 50 specimens

Habitat and Ecology

System

1 Forest
1.4 Forest – Temperate

Habitat and Ecology

Pilatotrama ljubarskyi is a poroid species growing as a saprobe of dry deciduous trees, and it causes white-rot. It has a perennial fruiting body, steady throughout the year, and it most often occurs individually, rarely in groups of 2-3 fruiting bodies. The sightings are associated with deciduous trees, such as Acacia spp., Robinia pseudoacacia, Carpinus spp., Prunus spp., Quercus spp., Populus spp., and there is also a single data for Pinus sp.
In N. Macedonia, the species has been observed on old willow trunks (Salix alba), and there is one case on Fagus silvatica and Quercus trojana, along with data from an unidentified host. Almost all data stem from heights between 500 and 900 m. It is only in Malesevo Mts that Pilatotrama ljubarskyi has been collected from a fallen trunk of Fagus silvatica in mixed beech-pine forest, at an altitude of 1,300 m

Use and trade

Use and trade

There is no confirmed use and trade of this species in N. Macedonia.

Threats

Threats

The impact is manifested by host habitat degradation and/or fragmentation in consideration of the fact that, in general, the species is very rare. Immediate impact upon the species has not been ascertained. With the exception of the piece of data from Jasen nature reserve, all the remaining stations are outside the boundaries of protected areas. This implies that the species is under heavy anthropogenic impact due to logging of oak and beech woods. The threat manifests differently, and it is contingent on the community site but fires during summer season could pose another severe threat.

Conservation actions

Conservation actions

Protection of old host trees is the crucial conservation action for species protection;
study of the population number and range; interpretation of species status by means of
enhanced understanding of species biology and ecology; habitat conservation; study of
the trends via monitoring.

Bibliography

Bibliography

Karadelev, M. 1989. Lignicolous Aphyllophorales (Basidiomycetes) on Macedonian Oak (Quercus trojana Webb.). . Biosistematika 15 (2): 119-125.

Karadelev, M., 1998 . Fungal biodiversity in Macedonia I. – with a special regard to substrates with a disjunctive range and relict origin. . Mycologia Montenegrina I-n: 49- 55.

Karadelev, M., 1999. A Preliminary Red List of Macromycetes in the Republic of Macedonia. . 1st Congress of Ecologists of the Republic of Macedonia with International Participation 5: 289-295. Ohrid, N.Macedonia.

Karadelev, M., 2000. A Preliminary red list of macrofungi in the Republic of Macedonia. . Newsletter of European Council for the Conservation of Fungi 10: 7-10.

Karadelev, M., Rusevska, K., 2013. Contribution to Macedonian Red List of Fungi. . 4th Congress of Ecologists of Macedonia with International Participation 28: 68-73. Ohrid, N. Macedonia.

Karadelev, M., Rusevska, K., Kost, G. and Mitic-Kopanja, M. L. 2018. Checklist of Macrofungal Species From the Phylum Basidiomycota of the Republic of Macedonia.

Acta Musei Macedonici Scientiarum Naturalium 21(1): 23-112.

Ordynets, A., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Savchenko, A., Bässler, C., Volobuev, S., Akulov, O., Karadelev, M., Kotiranta, H., Saitta, A., Ewald Langer, E. & N. Abrego., 2018. Do plant-based biogeographical regions shape aphyllophoroid fungal communities in
Europe?. . Journal of Biogeography: 1–14.

Tortic, M. 1988. Materials for the mycoflora of Macedonia. Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje.

Tortic, M., Cekova, M. 1975. Higher fungi on Jakupica Mountain. Godisen zbornik na Prirodno-matematicki fakultet, Skopje 27/28: 213-219.