The role of decaying logs in nursing soil fungal diversity varies with decay classes in the forest ecosystem

Abstract

Soil fungi are crucial drivers of log decomposition in forest ecosystems, but how soil fungal community composition varies during the process of log decomposition remains poorly understood. We conducted an experiment incubating decaying logs in a subalpine coniferous forest on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China. Five classes of decaying Minjiang fir (Abies faxoniana)