Successional Development of Fungal Communities Associated with Decomposing Deadwood in a Natural Mixed Temperate Forest.

ABSTRACT: Deadwood represents an important carbon stock and contributes to climate change mitigation. Wood decomposition is mainly driven by fungal communities. Their composition is known to change during decomposition, but it is unclear how environmental factors such as wood chemistry affect these successional patterns through their effects on dominant fungal taxa. We analysed the deadwood of Fagus sylvatica and Abies alba across a deadwood succession series of >40 years in a natural fir-beech forest in the Czech Republic to describe the successional changes in fungal communities, fungal abundance and enzymatic activities and to link these changes to environmental variables. The fungal communities showed high levels of spatial variability and beta diversity. In young deadwood, fungal

SUBMITTER: Lepinay C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8228407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature