Wood-inhabiting fungal responses to forest naturalness vary among morpho-groups.

ABSTRACT: The general negative impact of forestry on wood-inhabiting fungal diversity is well recognized, yet the effect of forest naturalness is poorly disentangled among different fungal groups inhabiting dead wood of different tree species. We studied the relationship between forest naturalness, log characteristics and diversity of different fungal morpho-groups inhabiting large decaying logs of similar quality in spruce dominated boreal forests. We sampled all non-lichenized fruitbodies from birch, spruce, pine and aspen in 12 semi-natural forest sites of varying level of naturalness. The overall fungal community composition was mostly determined by host tree species. However, when assessing the relevance of the environmental variables separately for each tree species, the most important variabl

SUBMITTER: Jenna P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285386 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature