Relating macrofungal diversity and forest characteristics in boreal forests in China: Conservation effects, inter-forest-type variations, and association decoupling.

ABSTRACT:

Question

How conservation and forest type affect macrofungal compositional diversity is not well understood. Even less is known about macrofungal associations with plants, soils, and geoclimatic conditions.

Location

Southern edge of boreal forest distribution in China, named as Huzhong Nature Reserve.

Methods

We surveyed a total of 72 plots for recording macrofungi, plants, and topography in 2015 and measured soil organic carbon, nitrogen, and bulk density. Effects of conservation and forest types on macrofungi and plants were compared, and their associations were decoupled by structural equation modeling (SEM) and redundancy ordination (RDA).

Results

Conservation and forest type largely shaped macrofungal diversity. Most of the macrofungal traits declined with

SUBMITTER: Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8495802 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature