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Schreiber J, Baldrian P, Brabcová V, Brandl R, Kellner H, Müller J, Roy F, Bässler C, Krah FS. Effects of experimental canopy openness on wood-inhabiting fungal fruiting diversity across succession. Sci Rep 2024; 14:16135. [PMID: 38997416 PMCID: PMC11245472 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67216-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
Abstract
While the succession of terrestrial plant communities is well studied, less is known about succession on dead wood, especially how it is affected by environmental factors. While temperate forests face increasing canopy mortality, which causes considerable changes in microclimates, it remains unclear how canopy openness affects fungal succession. Here, we used a large real-world experiment to study the effect of closed and opened canopy on treatment-based alpha and beta fungal fruiting diversity. We found increasing diversity in early and decreasing diversity at later stages of succession under both canopies, with a stronger decrease under open canopies. However, the slopes of the diversity versus time relationships did not differ significantly between canopy treatments. The community dissimilarity remained mainly stable between canopies at ca. 25% of species exclusively associated with either canopy treatment. Species exclusive in either canopy treatment showed very low number of occupied objects compared to species occurring in both treatments. Our study showed that canopy loss subtly affected fungal fruiting succession on dead wood, suggesting that most species in the local species pool are specialized or can tolerate variable conditions. Our study indicates that the fruiting of the fungal community on dead wood is resilient against the predicted increase in canopy loss in temperate forests.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jasper Schreiber
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Conservation Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 14200, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 14200, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology, Animal Ecology, Philips University of Marburg, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- International Institute Zittau, Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences, Technical University Dresden, 02763, Zittau, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology Biocenter, University of Würzburg, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
- Bavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau, Germany
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- International Institute Zittau, Department of Bio- and Environmental Sciences, Technical University Dresden, 02763, Zittau, Germany
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Conservation Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Fungal Ecology and BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
- Bavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau, Germany
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- Fungal Ecology and BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstr. 30, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany.
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Substrate affinities of wood decay fungi are foremost structured by wood properties not climate. FUNGAL ECOL 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2023.101231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Zemlerová V, Kozák D, Mikoláš M, Svitok M, Bače R, Smyčková M, Buechling A, Martin M, Larrieu L, Paillet Y, Roibu CC, Petritan IC, Čada V, Ferenčík M, Frankovič M, Gloor R, Hofmeister J, Janda P, Kameniar O, Majdanová L, Markuljaková K, Matula R, Mejstřík M, Rydval M, Vostarek O, Svoboda M. Natural Disturbances are Essential Determinants of Tree-Related Microhabitat Availability in Temperate Forests. Ecosystems 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-023-00830-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/29/2023]
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AbstractAssessing the impacts of natural disturbance on the functioning of complex forest systems are imperative in the context of global change. The unprecedented rate of contemporary species extirpations, coupled with widely held expectations that future disturbance intensity will increase with warming, highlights a need to better understand how natural processes structure habitat availability in forest ecosystems. Standardised typologies of tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) have been developed to facilitate assessments of resource availability for multiple taxa. However, natural disturbance effects on TreM diversity have never been assessed. We amassed a comprehensive dataset of TreM occurrences and a concomitant 300-year disturbance history reconstruction that spanned large environmental gradients in temperate primary forests. We used nonlinear analyses to quantify relations between past disturbance parameters and contemporary patterns of TreM occurrence. Our results reveal that natural forest dynamics, characterised by fluctuating disturbance intervals and variable severity levels, maintained structurally complex landscapes rich in TreMs. Different microhabitat types developed over time in response to divergent disturbance histories. The relative abundance of alternate TreMs was maximised by unique interactions between past disturbance severity and elapsed time. Despite an unequal distribution of individual TreMs, total microhabitat diversity was maintained at constant levels, suggesting that spatially heterogeneous disturbances maintained a shifting mosaic of habitat types over the region as a whole. Our findings underscore the fundamental role of natural processes in promoting conditions that maximise biodiversity potential. Strict conservation and management systems that preserve natural disturbance outcomes, including associated biological legacies, may therefore safeguard biodiversity at large scales.
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Prylutskyi O, Yatsiuk I, Savchenko A, Kit M, Solodiankin O, Schigel D. Strict substrate requirements alongside rapid substrate turnover may indicate an early colonization: A case study of Pleurotus calyptratus (Agaricales, Basidiomycota). FUNGAL ECOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Holec J, Kučera T. Richness and composition of macrofungi on large decaying trees in a Central European old-growth forest: a case study on silver fir (Abies alba). Mycol Prog 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11557-020-01637-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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