Macromycetes in anthropogenic changed conditions as bioindicators of the environment state

The article is devoted to the study of the prospects of using a number of species of higher basidial fungi (using the example of the most common species in urban ecosystems, Agaricus bitorquis, Agaricus arvensis and Coprinus comatus) as potential bioindicators for assessing the overall level of soil pollution with heavy metals. It is shown that despite a number of studies, the role of macromycetes in the implementation of local biomonitoring is still underestimated, due to a number of reasons, such as the dependence of the number and size of fruit bodies on the weather and climatic conditions of a particular year of harvesting and the general level of soil moisture, etc. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that the fruit bodies of many species of macromycetes have an increased ability to biosorption of heavy metal ions from the soil, which makes it possible to consider these organisms as potentially useful in quantifying the overall level of contamination of the substrate of urban soils compared with similar indicators for natural ecosystems.