S.D. Ward

TL;DR: Preliminary data suggest that the unimproved grasslands of Scotland are of exceptional importance for fungal conservation, compared with other countries of northern Europe.

TL;DR: Although available data provide little evidence for decline of hydnoid fungi, a number of species display very restricted distributions within Scotland, emphasising the need for further field surveys to define the current status of these fungi with greater accuracy.

TL;DR: Assessment of field surveys in Scotland provided evidence for declines in only four of the 17 species considered, however, 12 species are threatened with extinction according to the IUCN Red List criteria, owing to their restricted patterns of distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identified high priority challenges for entomology using an inclusive, open, and democratic four-stage prioritisation approach, conducted among the membership and affiliates (hereafter "members" of the UK-based Royal Entomological Society (RES).