Pennsylvania Biological Survey

Scientists, wildlife managers, and policy makers working together to sustain biological diversity

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Just out—a book by the PABS Mycological Technical Committee:

The Importance of Fungi

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Pennsylvania’s wild species: the Box Score


PABS maintains a Box Score of species diversity in the wild in Pennsylvania. The Box Score tallies wild species known to occur in the state by higher taxonomic group such as vascular plants, birds, fishes, butterflies, fungi, etc. and by their status in Pennsylvania, including endangered, threatened or extirpated, native or nonnative, and Pennsylvania-responsibility. The Box Score documents changes over time in species’ status in the state, which can result from imperiled species’ successful recovery, common species’ population crashes due to emerging threats, introduction of new nonnative species, or collection of new or better information.