The effects of burning and dead-wood creation on the diversity of pioneer wood-inhabiting fungi in managed boreal spruce forests

Long-term effects of stump harvesting and landscape composition on beetle assemblages in the hemiboreal forest of Sweden

“…However, very few studies have, similar to our study, compared biodiversity in forests with manipulated amounts of dead wood but of similar age (but see Berglund et al, 2011). Still there are strong indications of a positive relation between amounts of dead wood and species richness (Junninen and Komonen, 2011;Lassauce et al, 2011).…”

Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

“…Another study revealed that ranking of host tree species by local beetle communities is affected by management . Prescribed burning creates very specific deadwood substrates and thus leads to clear differences in the species composition of burned and unburned forest for many species groups (Berglund et al, 2011). Fire further creates a pulse of new resource that favors some saproxylic taxa, particularly red-listed beetles, often leading to higher species numbers (Hyvärinen et al, 2006).…”

Priority colonization of Cinnamomum camphora litter by endophytes affects decomposition rate, fungal community and microbial activities under field conditions

“…In addition, other fungi, such as Aspergillus, Bjerkandera, Cerrena and Cladosporium, were often found as endophytes in living leaves or needles, and were also often detected in the degrading leave litters (Yuan et al, 2011;He et al, 2012). Bjerkandera and Cerrena were widely looked as woodinhabiting fungi for their secreting ligninolytic enzymes (Hiscox et al, 2010;Berglund et al, 2011;Fukasawa et al, 2012;Pinto et al, 2012;Maza et al, 2014), and they can provide habitats for many other saproxylic forest species besides providing the basic ecosystem services, wood decomposition and nutrient cycling (Penttilä et al, 2013;Kebli et al, 2014). Assembly history of fungal community arised from these endophytic colonization indicated that some endophytic species by priority effect could function well as saprophyte to adapt to new environment (He et al 2012).…”