Idiosyncratic responses to biotic and environmental filters in wood-inhabiting fungal communities.

ABSTRACT: Quantification of different processes affecting the assembly of ecological communities remains challenging, especially in species-rich communities. While the role of environmental filtering has generally been well established, fewer studies have experimentally shown how other ecological assembly processes, such as biotic filtering, structure species-rich communities. Here, we studied the relative roles of biotic and environmental filtering in the colonization of wood-inhabiting fungi, a species-rich, highly interactive, and environment-sensitive group of species. We conducted a field experiment where we simulated colonization with inoculations of nine fungal species in habitat patches (i.e., logs) with varying biotic and abiotic conditions. We characterized the local resident communities b

SUBMITTER: Saine S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11815356 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature