People
Roberts, Peter
| Job Title | Taxonomic Mycologist |
|---|---|
| Department | Jodrell |
| Section | Mycology |
| Science Teams |
Wet Tropics: Africa Mycology United Kingdom UK Overseas Territories |
| Joined Kew | 1994 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BA, Univ. Keele 1972
MA, Univ. Keele 1974
PhD, King’s College, Univ. London 1998.
Editorial board, Czech Mycology
Editorial board, Field Mycology
Editorial board, Mycological Progress
Editorial board, Persoonia.
Role
Taxonomy of British and overseas heterobasidioid, corticioid, and clavarioid basidiomycetes, with particular interest in Cameroon and the Caribbean area.
Research focuses on the systematics of heterobasidioid, corticioid, and clavarioid fungi worldwide. In progress are studies on heterobasidioid fungi from the Greater Antilles and Belize (two papers published, two in press) partly through an NSF-funded project to produce basic identification manuals for local scientists; studies on basidiomycetes from Cameroon (four papers published) as part of the Korup Project biodiversity inventory; and a monographic guide to the clavarioid and ramarioid fungi of the British Isles (joint authorship). Research also includes joint studies of heterobasidioid, corticioid, and clavarioid fungi from Australia (Kimberley Region) and the Azores, as well as co-authorship of a checklist of Antarctic fungi (with the British Antarctic Survey).
Projects
Checklist of British and Irish Basidiomycota: Web Version and Revised Edition
Database for UK Fungi of Conservation Importance
Plant Diversity Challenge: the Official UK Response to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
Poroid Fungi from Korup National Park, Cameroon
Selected Publications 2001-2005
Roberts, P. (2003). Heterobasidiomycetes from Rancho Grande, Venezuela. Mycotaxon 87: 25-41.
Roberts, P. (2003). Caribbean heterobasidiomycetes: 1. Dominican Republic. Mycotaxon 87: 187-201.
Sivakumaran, S., Bridge, P. & Roberts P. (2003). Genetic relatedness among Filobasidiella species. Mycopathologia 156: 157-162.
Legon, N.W., Henrici, A., Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R. (2005). Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota. Kew: RBG Kew. 517 pp.
Spooner, B. & Roberts, P. (2005). New Naturalist: Fungi. London: HarperCollins. 594 pp.
Selected Publications pre-2001
Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P. & Spooner, B.M. (1997). British Chanterelles & Tooth-Fungi. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 114 pp.
Roberts, P. (1998). A revision of the genera Heterochaetella, Myxarium, Protodontia and Stypella (Heterobasidiomycetes). Mycotaxon 69: 209-248.
Roberts, P. (1999). Rhizoctonia-forming fungi. A taxonomic guide. Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 239 pp.
Roberts, P. (1999). Clavarioid fungi from Korup National Park, Cameroon. (1999) Kew Bulletin 54: 517-539.
Roberts, P. (2000). Corticioid fungi from Korup National Park, Cameroon. Kew Bulletin 55: 803-842.