Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests
Abstract The hyperdiverse wood‐inhabiting fungi play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, but often are threatened by deadwood removal, particularly in temperate forests dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis). To study the impact of abiotic drivers,...
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| author | Giorgi Mamadashvili Antoine Brin Maksym Chumak Valeriia Diedus Lars Drössler Bernhard Förster Kostadin B. Georgiev Tigran Ghrejyan Ruslan Hleb Mark Kalashian Ivan Kamburov Gayane Karagyan Joni Kevlishvili Zviad Khutsishvili Laurent Larrieu Meri Mazmanyan Peter I. Petrov Levan Tabunidze Claus Bässler Jörg Müller |
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| description | Abstract The hyperdiverse wood‐inhabiting fungi play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, but often are threatened by deadwood removal, particularly in temperate forests dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis). To study the impact of abiotic drivers, deadwood factors, forest management and biogeographical patterns in forests of both beech species on fungal composition and diversity, we collected 215 deadwood‐drilling samples in 18 forests from France to Armenia and identified fungi by meta‐barcoding. In our analyses, we distinguished the patterns driven by rare, common, and dominant species using Hill numbers. Despite a broad overlap in species, the fungal composition with focus on rare species was determined by Fagus species, deadwood type, deadwood diameter, precipitation, temperature, and management status in decreasing order. Shifting the focus on common and dominant species, only Fagus species, both climate variables and deadwood type remained. The richness of species within the deadwood objects increased significantly only with decay stage. Gamma diversity in European beech forests was higher than in Oriental beech forests. We revealed the highest gamma diversity for old‐growth forests of European beech when focusing on dominant species. Our results implicate that deadwood retention efforts, focusing on dominant fungi species, critical for the decay process, should be distributed across precipitation and temperature gradients and both Fagus species. Strategies focusing on rare species should additionally focus on different diameters and on the conservation of old‐growth forests. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0249a54533d748dfb7cc25224139ea3d2025-08-20T03:30:55ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582024-07-01147n/an/a10.1002/ece3.11660Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forestsGiorgi Mamadashvili0Antoine Brin1Maksym Chumak2Valeriia Diedus3Lars Drössler4Bernhard Förster5Kostadin B. Georgiev6Tigran Ghrejyan7Ruslan Hleb8Mark Kalashian9Ivan Kamburov10Gayane Karagyan11Joni Kevlishvili12Zviad Khutsishvili13Laurent Larrieu14Meri Mazmanyan15Peter I. Petrov16Levan Tabunidze17Claus Bässler18Jörg Müller19Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology Biocenter, University of Würzburg Rauhenebrach GermanySciences and digital department University of Toulouse, Ecole d'Ingénieurs de PURPAN, UMR INRAE‐INPT DYNAFOR Toulouse FranceDepartment of Entomology and Biodiversity Preservation Uzhhorod National University Uzhhorod UkraineState Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Lviv UkraineForestry Research and Competence Center ThüringenForst AöR Gotha GermanyChair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management Technical University of Munich Freising GermanyHessian State Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology Hesse GermanyLaboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology NAS RA Yerevan ArmeniaForestry laboratory Carpathian Biosphere Reserve Rakhiv UkraineLaboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology NAS RA Yerevan ArmeniaStrandzha Nature Park Directorate Malko Tarnovo BulgariaLaboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology NAS RA Yerevan ArmeniaBiodiversity Conservation Center “Nacres” Tbilisi GeorgiaBiodiversity Conservation Center “Nacres” Tbilisi GeorgiaUniversité de Toulouse, INRAE, UMR DYNAFOR Castanet‐Tolosan FranceLaboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology NAS RA Yerevan ArmeniaUniversity of Forestry Sofia, Field Base Petrohan Barzia BulgariaCaucasus Nature Fund – CNF Tbilisi GeorgiaEcology of Fungi, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) University of Bayreuth Bayreuth GermanyField Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology Biocenter, University of Würzburg Rauhenebrach GermanyAbstract The hyperdiverse wood‐inhabiting fungi play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, but often are threatened by deadwood removal, particularly in temperate forests dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis). To study the impact of abiotic drivers, deadwood factors, forest management and biogeographical patterns in forests of both beech species on fungal composition and diversity, we collected 215 deadwood‐drilling samples in 18 forests from France to Armenia and identified fungi by meta‐barcoding. In our analyses, we distinguished the patterns driven by rare, common, and dominant species using Hill numbers. Despite a broad overlap in species, the fungal composition with focus on rare species was determined by Fagus species, deadwood type, deadwood diameter, precipitation, temperature, and management status in decreasing order. Shifting the focus on common and dominant species, only Fagus species, both climate variables and deadwood type remained. The richness of species within the deadwood objects increased significantly only with decay stage. Gamma diversity in European beech forests was higher than in Oriental beech forests. We revealed the highest gamma diversity for old‐growth forests of European beech when focusing on dominant species. Our results implicate that deadwood retention efforts, focusing on dominant fungi species, critical for the decay process, should be distributed across precipitation and temperature gradients and both Fagus species. Strategies focusing on rare species should additionally focus on different diameters and on the conservation of old‐growth forests.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11660deadwood fungiFagus orientalisFagus sylvaticahabitat heterogeneityHill numbersspecies diversity |
| spellingShingle | Giorgi Mamadashvili Antoine Brin Maksym Chumak Valeriia Diedus Lars Drössler Bernhard Förster Kostadin B. Georgiev Tigran Ghrejyan Ruslan Hleb Mark Kalashian Ivan Kamburov Gayane Karagyan Joni Kevlishvili Zviad Khutsishvili Laurent Larrieu Meri Mazmanyan Peter I. Petrov Levan Tabunidze Claus Bässler Jörg Müller Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests Ecology and Evolution deadwood fungi Fagus orientalis Fagus sylvatica habitat heterogeneity Hill numbers species diversity |
| title | Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests |
| title_full | Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests |
| title_fullStr | Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests |
| title_short | Drivers of wood‐inhabiting fungal diversity in European and Oriental beech forests |
| title_sort | drivers of wood inhabiting fungal diversity in european and oriental beech forests |
| topic | deadwood fungi Fagus orientalis Fagus sylvatica habitat heterogeneity Hill numbers species diversity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11660 |
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