Contrasting diversity patterns of brown: and white-rot wood saprotrophs in response to climate and dispersal vectors.

ABSTRACT: Climate is a major determinant of fungal diversity on both large and small spatial scales. However, little is known about the combined effects of regional temperature, microclimate, and dispersal vectors on fungal diversity. We studied the effect of microclimate and wood-inhabiting beetles serving as potential dispersal vectors on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi in general-and of brown- and white-rot fungi in particular-along a regional temperature gradient. This focus is motivated by the critical role that different rot types play in wood decomposition and carbon cycling. Beetle and fungal communities were sampled in 243 logs of Norway spruce (Picea abies), which were placed along a 1200 km latitudinal gradient in Sweden (i.e. regional temperature gradient) and under different shad

SUBMITTER: Gossmann A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12724080 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature