Sarcodon martioflavus is easy to identify and rare species of the Bankeraceae family. It occurs in coniferous forests and outgrown pastures following the natural occurrence of spruce, with which it is forming mycorrhiza. Preffered are waterlogged habitats or sites near the streams, with well developed mossy layer on fertile calcareous soils. Basidiomata are often adherent solitary ones are rare. They occur mostly during the summer with above average precipitation. The species is threatened by inappropriate forest management, clear cutting of suitable habitats – spruce forests on outgrown pastures. Further threats include air pollution and global climate change, with sudden temperature and rain fluctuations, lack of precipitation and its uneven distribution over the year, as well as drying of habitats.
Sarcodon versipellis is an umbrella species, found in habitats with diverse and rich mycoflora (“hot spots”) in succession spruce forests on outgrown grasslands declining throughout whole Europe, because of human activities and climate change.

The species distribution center is located in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden and Norway. Findings are also known from other European countries such as Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, France and Belgium. Outside Europe, it was recorded in the US and Canada.

Relatively stable trends in population development are recorded only in Scandinavia. Given the anthropic pressure on habitats as well as climate change, a downward trend in populations can be expected.

It occurs in coniferous forests and outgrown pastures following the natural occurrence of spruce, with which it is forming mycorrhiza. Preffered are waterlogged habitats or sites near the streams, with well developed mossy layer on fertile calcareous soils. Basidiomata are often adherent solitary ones are rare. They occur mostly during the summer with above average precipitation.
Sarcodon versipellis is an umbrella species, found in habitats with diverse and rich mycoflora (“hot spots”) in succession spruce forests on outgrown grasslands declining throughout whole Europe, because of human activities and climate change.

It is threatened by the destruction of natural habitats, in particular by felling and conversion of the natural structure of overgrown pastures into equal aged forest monocultures or by urbanization. Also by climate change, lack of atmospheric precipitation and soil moisture as well as by drying of the land. The habitat of Sarcodon versipellis is rapidly declining throughout Europe.

For the protection of Sarcodon versipellis the strictest protected areas should be declared in the whole area of its occurrence.

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