Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Mycology Volume 2014, Article ID 241806, 15 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/241806 Research Article Availability of Wild Edible Fungi in La Malinche National Park, Mexico A. Montoya,1 A. Kong,1 R. Garibay-Orijel,2 C. Méndez-Espinoza,3 Rodham E. Tulloss,4,5 and A. Estrada-Torres1 1 Laboratorio de Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Biologicas,´ Universidad Autonoma´ de Tlaxcala, Km 10.5 Autopista San Mart´ın Texmelucan-Tlaxcala, 90120 Ixtacuixtla, TLAX, Mexico 2 Instituto de Biolog´ıa, Universidad Nacional Autonoma´ de Mexico,´ Circuito Exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico,´ DF, Mexico 3 Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agr´ıcolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP)/Centro Nacional de Investigacion´ Disciplinaria en Conservacion´ y Mejoramiento de Ecosistemas Forestales, Avenida Progreso No. 5, Colonia Barrio de Santa Catarina, 04010 Coyoacan,´ DF, Mexico 4 P.O. Box 57, Roosevelt, NJ 08555-0057, USA 5 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA Correspondence should be addressed to A. Montoya;
[email protected] Received 30 September 2013; Revised 22 December 2013; Accepted 28 December 2013; Published 5 March 2014 Academic Editor: Clemencia Chaves-Lopez Copyright © 2014 A. Montoya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The aim of this paper is to compare edible mushroom availability between the two slopes of La Malinche National Park incentral Mexico,´ and to discuss the possible relation between their availability and traditional use. Eight transects were set up.