Macrofungal species distributions depend on habitat partitioning of topography, light, and vegetation in a temperate mountain forest.

ABSTRACT: The habitat partitioning hypothesis provides a conceptual framework for explaining the maintenance of plant and animal diversity. Its central tenet assumes environmental conditions are spatially structured, and that this structure is reflected in species distributions through associations with different habitats. Studies confirming habitat partitioning effects have focused primarily on spatial distributions of plants and animals, with habitat partitioning hypothesis under explored for macrofungi. Here, we examined the sporocarps of macrofungi in a 5-ha forest dynamics plot in China. We used four different methods to define microhabitats for habitat partitioning analyses based on topography, understory light availability, plant community, or a combination of these factors, and analyzed the

SUBMITTER: Chen Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6134103 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature