AUTHOR=Purahong Witoon , Wubet Tesfaye , Lentendu Guillaume , Hoppe Björn , Jariyavidyanont Katalee , Arnstadt Tobias , Baber Kristin , Otto Peter , Kellner Harald , Hofrichter Martin , Bauhus Jürgen , Weisser Wolfgang W. , Krüger Dirk , Schulze Ernst-Detlef , Kahl Tiemo , Buscot François TITLE=Determinants of Deadwood-Inhabiting Fungal Communities in Temperate Forests: Molecular Evidence From a Large Scale Deadwood Decomposition Experiment JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02120 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2018.02120 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
Despite the important role of wood-inhabiting fungi (WIF) in deadwood decomposition, our knowledge of the factors shaping the dynamics of their species richness and community composition is scarce. This is due to limitations regarding the resolution of classical methods used for characterizing WIF communities and to a lack of well-replicated long-term experiments with sufficient numbers of tree species. Here, we used a large scale experiment with logs of 11 tree species at an early stage of decomposition, distributed across three regions of Germany, to identify the factors shaping WIF community composition and Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) richness using next generation sequencing. We found that tree species identity was the most significant factor, corresponding to (