Leaf litter and deadwood have important roles in the forest ecosystems, providing shelter for
several organisms, preventing erosion and microclimate fluctuations. Their decomposition is …

Filamentous fungi are critical to the decomposition of terrestrial organic matter and,
consequently, in the global carbon cycle. In particular, their contribution to degradation of …

Due to land use history, most of the current temperate and boreal forests are developed on
nutrient-poor and rocky soils, kee** fertile soils for agriculture. Consequently, the …

Fungi play vital roles in the decomposition of deadwood due to their secretion of various
enzymes that break down plant cell-wall complexes. The compositions of wood-inhabiting …

Decaying wood plays an important role in forest biodiversity, nutrient cycling and carbon
balance. Community structure of wood-inhabiting fungi changes with mass loss of wood, but …

Owing to previous methodological limitations, knowledge about the fine‐scale distribution of
fungal mycelia in decaying logs is limited. We investigated fungal communities in decaying …

Current knowledge of the succession of fungi in decaying wood is mostly based on fruit
bodies and in vitro culture. Here, we investigated the changing community of metabolically …

Narrowing the uncertainties in coarse woody debris (CWD) decomposition rates depending
on the ecosystem and substrate attributes can improve our understanding of biodiversity …

Abstract Information on the habitat requirements of wood-inhabiting fungi is needed to
understand the factors that affect their diversity. We applied culture-free DNA extraction and …

Picea abies logs were inoculated with Resinicium bicolor, Fomitopsis pinicola or left un-
inoculated and placed in an old-growth boreal forest. Mass loss and fungal community data …