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Wood-decaying fungi in the forest: conservation needs and management options

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Wood-decaying fungi are essential for the functioning of forest ecosystems. They provide habitat for many other organisms and enable the regeneration of forests throughout the world. Since wood decomposition is a decisive process in nutrient recycling, soil formation and the carbon budget of forest ecosystems, it is receiving increasing attention from forest ecologists, pathologists and managers. Research has focussed on the factors driving the species-richness of wood-decomposing organisms and is moving on to analyse the effects of this species-richness on ecosystem functioning. Coarse woody debris (CWD) and its associated wood-decaying organisms have been drastically reduced in abundance and diversity by forestry and so these features often have potential as conservation indicators. Protective measures at a landscape level are needed for threatened wood-inhabiting fungi. These include restricting salvage operations in windthrow stands, actively encouraging the accumulation of deadwood in forests, and facilitating decay in standing trees by inoculating them with fungi. Here, we aim to collect and summarize recently produced work on deadwood ecology, pointing out research gaps and perspectives.

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Many thanks to S. Bertolo, T. Coch, I. Currado, J. F. Dobremez, A. Fischlin, K. J. Gaston, E. Lange, M. Haywood, M. Jeger, H. Keene, M. Lauerer, L. Paul, R. Smith, J.-P. Sorg, P. H. Warren, P. J. Weisberg, R. Whittaker and R. Winkler for discussing ideas contained in this review, and to two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a previous version of the draft.

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    Marco Pautasso

  3. Institute of Integrative Biology, Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Ottmar Holdenrieder

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Lonsdale, D., Pautasso, M. & Holdenrieder, O. Wood-decaying fungi in the forest: conservation needs and management options. Eur J Forest Res 127, 1–22 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-007-0182-6

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