Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11028369 | Forest Ecology and Management | 2019 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We reinforced the assumption, that old-growth, uneven-aged European beech forests (>120â¯years) can act as a refugium for unique forest type specific fungal communities with a higher functional structure, especially contrary to non-native, even-aged Norway spruce forests (â¼70â¯years). Single Norway spruce tree selection cutting with further introduction of European beech trees can be an adequate strategy to allow a spruce forest conversion without necessarily reducing the macrofungal species richness and its functional structure. We displayed that ecological consequences of windthrow events can be a depression of fungal species richness and a collapse for the functional structure of fungi, especially after salvage logging. Our study underlines the need of including fungal conservation in forest conversion plans to optimize forest ecosystem integrity and resilience against biotic and abiotic agents, such as windstorm events.
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Authors
Peggy Heine, Jonas Hausen, Richard Ottermanns, Andreas Schäffer, Martina RoÃ-Nickoll,