In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future
climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades …

The influence of forest management on fungal diversity and community composition has
been the subject of a wide number of studies over the last two decades. However, the …

The importance of dead wood for biodiversity is widely recognized but strategies for
conservation exist only in some regions worldwide. Most strategies combine knowledge …

The alarming rate of ecosystem degradation has raised the need for ecological restoration
throughout different biomes and continents. North European forests may appear as one of …

Background Polypores as components of forest ecosystems are an important group of wood-
inhabiting fungi playing a key role in forest regeneration. Previously, studies on polypore …

Soil fungal communities perform many functions that help plants meet their nutritional
demands. However, overall trends for fungal response to fire, which can be especially …

Intensive forest management has been applied in most Fennoscandian forests for a period
of almost one felling rotation. This paradigm has produced even-aged and even-structured …

In managed forests, leaving retention trees during final harvesting has globally become a
common approach to reconciling the often conflicting goals of timber production and …

We studied fungal succession in decaying wood by compiling time-series data of fruit body
observations. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a primary species affects the …

Experimental canopy gap formation and additions of coarse woody debris (CWD) are
techniques intended to mimic the disturbance regime and accelerate the development of …