In forest ecosystems, ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi play a central role in the
breakdown of soil organic matter (SOM). Competition between these two fungal guilds has …

The use of fossil fuels and fertilizers has increased the amount of biologically reactive
nitrogen in the atmosphere over the past century. As a consequence, forests in industrialized …

Fungi typically live in highly diverse communities composed of multiple ecological guilds.
Although high-throughput sequencing has greatly increased the ability to quantify the …

An expectation in soil ecology is that a microbial communities' fungal: bacterial dominance
indicates both its response to environmental change and its impact on ecosystem function …

The influence of pH on the relative importance of the two principal decomposer groups in
soil, fungi and bacteria, was investigated along a continuous soil pH gradient at Hoosfield …

Contemporary soil science and conservation methods of effective forestry Forests and the
soils that serve as their foundation cover almost a third of the world's land area. Soils …

Boreal forests harbour diverse fungal communities with decisive roles in decomposition and
plant nutrition. Although changes in boreal plant communities along gradients in soil acidity …

The supply of nitrogen commonly limits plant production in boreal forests and also affects
species composition and ecosystem functions other than plant growth. These interrelations …

Fungi play an important regulating role in terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, their
biogeographic distribution patterns along combined gradients of plant communities and …

In Fennoscandian boreal forests, soil pH and N supply generally increase downhill as a
result of water transport of base cations and N, respectively. Simultaneously, forest …