Potential links between wood-inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high-throughput sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Wood-inhabiting fungi (WIF) are pivotal to wood decomposition, which in turn strongly influences nutrient dynamics in forest soils. However, their dispersal mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that the majority of WIF are soil-borne. For this reason, the presented research aimed to quantify the contribution of soil as a source and medium for the dispersal of WIF to deadwood using high-throughput sequencing. We tested effects of tree species (specifically Schima superba and Pinus massoniana) on the percentage of WIF shared between soil and deadwood in a Chinese subtropical forest ecosystem. We also assessed the taxonomic and ecological functional group affiliations of the fungal community shared between soil and deadwood. Our results indicate that soil is a major route for WIF coloni

SUBMITTER: Purahong W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6741142 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature