Chapter 12 Basidiomycete community development in temperate angiosperm wood

doi:10.1016/S0275-0287(08)80014-8

British Mycological Society Symposia Series

Volume 28, 2008, Pages 211-237

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Abstract

The wide variety of dead wood habitats supports a wide variety of specialized fungi, which globally may exceed 100,000 species. Of these the majority of known taxa are Basidiomycota. They exhibit a wide variety of strategies to gain and hold territory within wood, defined by their mode of dispersal, establishment, competitive ability and adaptation to disturbance and stress factors. Many habitat factors affect community composition and development, both exogenous, e.g. microclimatic regime, and endogenous, e.g. interspecific interactions. Initial microenvironmental, factors—at one extreme high stress and at the other extreme absence of abiotic stress—are major determinants of the communities that establish. Following initial establishment, community development is influenced by four main driving forces: stress aggravation (worsening of abiotic environmental conditions), stress alleviation (improvement in abiotic conditions), disturbance and combat (interspecific competition for space rather than directly for nutrients). The ecological strategies adopted by wood decay Basidiomycota, habitat factors influencing community development and community development pathways are discussed in relation to angiosperm wood.

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Chapter 12 Basidiomycete community development in temperate angiosperm wood

Abstract

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Biological Conservation

Transactions of the British Mycological Society

Mycological Research

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Transactions of the British Mycological Society

Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Forest Ecology and Management

Forest Ecology and Management

Mycological Research

Transactions of the British Mycological Society

Advances in Ecological Research

Mycological Research

Mycological Research

Mycological Research

Forest Ecology and Management

Biological Conservation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Forest Ecology and Management

Biological Conservation

Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Mycocoenology of stands of Fagus sylvatica L. in the northeastern Netherlands

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