Do microclimatic conditions in two forest types on serpentine bedrock affect culturable microfungi in pine litter needles?

0566704 - BÚ 2024 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Koukol, O. - Magdalinou, E. - Pánková, Hana - Borovička, Jan - Münzbergová, Zuzana
Do microclimatic conditions in two forest types on serpentine bedrock affect culturable microfungi in pine litter needles?
Czech Mycology. Roč. 74, č. 2 (2022), s. 181-194. ISSN 1805-1421
Institutional support: RVO:67985939 ; RVO:67985831
Keywords : fungal diversity * ITS rDNA * temperature and humidity
OECD category: Ecology; Mycology (GLU-S)
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.33585/cmy.74205

Fungal communities were most affected by needle type (litter vs. fermentation layer) followed by maximum temperature during the previous five months. Interestingly, a higher number and abundance of species were recorded at the warmer site, in the open-canopy forest. Dominant fungi recorded in this study (Desmazierella acicola, Phacidium lacerum and Scleroconidioma sphagnicola) were mostly identical to those recorded in previous studies and the occurrence of less abundant taxa previously not recorded in pine litter suggests that the uppermost litter layer represents an important reservoir of fungal diversity.
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