Macrofungal diversity and ecology in four Irish forest types

O’Hanlon, Richard; Harrington, Thomas J.

doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2011.12.008

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“…For example, this could explain the absence of the genus Marasmiellus from fungal taxa identified by next-generation sequencing, since members of this genus are specialized decomposers of spruce needles, and they are probably present in the very top litter layer only. Though the results of our fruiting body inventory are suggestive, they reflect the outcomes of most of previous studies of fungal diversity in forests of the Northern Hemisphere (43)(44)(45). The fungal communities colonizing the wood showed pronounced differences compared to those of the surrounding soils.…”

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Dominant Tree Species and Soil Type Affect the Fungal Community Structure in a Boreal Peatland Forest

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Kovalchuk

et al. 2016

Appl Environ Microbiol

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f Boreal peatlands play a crucial role in global carbon cycling, acting as an important carbon reservoir. However, little information is available on how peatland microbial communities are influenced by natural variability or human-induced disturbances. In this study, we have investigated the fungal diversity and community structure of both the organic soil layer and buried wood in boreal forest soils using high-throughput sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. We have also compared the fungal communities during the primary colonization of wood with those of the surrounding soils. A permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) confirmed that the community composition significantly differed between soil types (P < 0.001) and tree species (P < 0.001). The distance-based linear models analysis showed that environmental variables were significantly correlated with community structure (P < 0.04). The availability of soil nutrients (Ca [P ‫؍‬ 0.002], Fe [P ‫؍‬ 0.003], and P [P ‫؍‬ 0.003]) within the site was an important factor in the fungal community composition. The species richness in wood was significantly lower than in the corresponding soil (P < 0.004). The results of the molecular identification were supplemented by fruiting body surveys. Seven of the genera of Agaricomycotina identified in our surveys were among the top 20 genera observed in pyrosequencing data. Our study is the first, to our knowledge, fungal high-throughput next-generation sequencing study performed on peatlands; it further provides a baseline for the investigation of the dynamics of the fungal community in the boreal peatlands.

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confidence: 81%

Dominant Tree Species and Soil Type Affect the Fungal Community Structure in a Boreal Peatland Forest

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Kovalchuk

et al. 2016

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“…(Trudell and Edmonds 2004; Christensen and Heilmann-Clausen 2009; López-Quintero et al 2012; O’Hanlon and Harrington 2012; Pradhan et al 2013). Climatic conditions as well as phyto-geomorphologic features affect macrofungal fructification (Brunner et al 1992; Yang et al 2006) and thus the chances of their collection during inventory.…”

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Macrofungal diversity in community-managed sal (Shorea robusta) forests in central Nepal

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Macrofungi constitute a group of the high-value forest resources worldwide. In this paper, we report species richness and composition of the macrofungi in sal (Shorea robusta) forests of mid-hill central Nepal, which were managed for 4–29 years by the local communities. The sal forests were rich in macrofungi (115 species) with Polyporaceae being the largest family followed by Clavariaceae. Saprotrophic fungi were more common than mycorrhizal species. The proportion of mycorrhiza was <40% of the total macrofungi species which might have indicated the deteriorated condition of the forests before the initiation of conservation management. However, the proportion of mycorrhizal species was slightly higher in the forests managed for >10 years than in the forests managed for short period. The species richness increased with increasing canopy and litter cover. Since silvicultural activities and resource utilization often have negative impacts to macrofungal diversity, these activities need to be optimized to keep balance between forest management and biodiversity conservation.

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“…However, in countries where the extent of naturally occurring forests is limited, plantation forests may provide habitat for forest associated species and enhance overall landscape biodiversity, (Stephens and Wagner 2007;Brockerhoff et al 2008;Pawson et al 2008;Sweeney et al 2010;Coote et al 2012). Several studies have also suggested that plantation forests have the potential to benefit native diversity even where the planted tree species are nonnative conifer species (Bremer and Farley 2010;O'Hanlon and Harrrington 2012;Humphrey 2005).…”

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The value of plantation forests for plant, invertebrate and bird diversity and the potential for cross-taxon surrogacy

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As the area of plantation forest expands worldwide and natural, unmanaged forests decline there is much interest in the potential for planted forests to provide habitat for biodiversity. In regions where little semi-natural woodland remains, the biodiversity supported by forest plantations, typically non-native conifers, may be particularly important. Few studies provide detailed comparisons between the species diversity of native woodlands which are being depleted and non-native plantation forests, which are now expanding, based on data collected from multiple taxa in the same study sites. Here we compare the species diversity and community composition of plants, invertebrates and birds in Sitka spruce-(Picea sitchensis-) dominated and Norway spruce-(Picea abies-) dominated plantations, which have expanded significantly in recent decades in the study area in Ireland, with that of oak-and ash-dominated semi-natural woodlands in the same area. The results show that species richness in spruce plantations can be as high as seminatural woodlands, but that the two forest types support different assemblages of species. In areas where non-native conifer plantations are the principle forest type, their role in the provision of habitat for biodiversity conservation should not be overlooked. Appropriate management should target the introduction of semi-natural woodland characteristics, and on the extension of existing semi-natural woodlands to maintain and enhance forest species diversity. Our data show 2 that although some relatively easily surveyed groups, such as vascular plants and birds, were congruent with many of the other taxa when looking across all study sites, the similarities in response were not strong enough to warrant use of these taxa as surrogates of the others. In order to capture a wide range of biotic variation, assessments of forest biodiversity should either encompass several taxonomic groups, or rely on the use of indicators of diversity that are not species based.

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Macrofungal diversity and ecology in four Irish forest types

Cited by 50 publications

References 46 publications

Dominant Tree Species and Soil Type Affect the Fungal Community Structure in a Boreal Peatland Forest

Dominant Tree Species and Soil Type Affect the Fungal Community Structure in a Boreal Peatland Forest

Macrofungal diversity in community-managed sal (Shorea robusta) forests in central Nepal

The value of plantation forests for plant, invertebrate and bird diversity and the potential for cross-taxon surrogacy

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