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Early fungal community succession following crown fire in Pinus mugo stands and surface fire in Pinus sylvestris stands

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The early post-fire development of mycobiota following a crown fire in mountain pine plantations and a surface fire in Scots pine plantations, and in the corresponding unburnt stands in the coastal sand dunes of the Curonian Spit in western Lithuania was investigated. Species numbers in unburnt Pinus mugo and Pinus sylvestris stands showed annual fluctuation, but in the burnt sites, the numbers of fungi increased yearly, especially in the crown fire plots. Both burnt stand types—P. mugo and P. sylvestris—showed strongly significant (two-way ANOSIM; R = 1, p < 0.05) differences in species composition; the differences between unburnt sites were clearly expressed but less significant (R = 0.86, p < 0.05). Fungal species composition of burnt P. mugo and P. sylvestris sites was qualitatively different from that of corresponding unburnt sites (two-way ANOSIM; R ≥ 0.75, p < 0.05). The chronosequence of mycobiota in surface fire burns was less clearly defined than in crown fire sites, reflecting the greater patchiness of impacts of the surface fire. Although both fire types were detrimental or at least damaging to all functional groups of fungi (saprobic on soil and forest litter, wood-inhabiting, biotrophic, and mycorrhizal and lichenized fungi), their recovery and appearance (fructification) patterns varied between the groups and among the burn types. The end of the early post-fire fungal succession (cessation of sporocarp production of pyrophilous fungi) was recorded 3 years after the fire for both crown and surface fire types, which is earlier than reported by other authors. Rare or threatened fungal species that are dependent on fire regime were not recorded during the study.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Gintaras Kantvilas (Hobart, Tasmania) for improving the language of the manuscript and valuable comments and Dalytė Matulevičiūtė (Vilnius, Lithuania) for supplying data on pine forest associations in the study area. Our sincere gratitude is extended to anonymous reviewers for valuable comments and suggestions for the manuscript. We acknowledge the help from the staff of Kuršių Nerija National Park. The study was supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation (Grants No. T–60/07, T–69/08, and T–52/09).

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    Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Gražina Adamonytė, Reda Iršėnaitė, Jonas Kasparavičius & Svetlana Markovskaja

  2. Department of Botany and Genetics, Vilnius University, M. K. Čiurlionio Str. 21/27, 03101, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Sigitas Juzėnas & Ernestas Kutorga

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This article originates from the IUFRO Conference “Biological Reactions of Forests to Climate Change and Air Pollution,” held in Kaunas/Lithuania during May 18–27, 2012, as organized by IUFRO Research Group 7.01.00 in cooperation with COST Action FP 0903 “MAFor,” North American Air Pollution workshop ENVeurope, and ICP monitoring task force (local organizer: Algirdas Augustaitis).

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Motiejūnaitė, J., Adamonytė, G., Iršėnaitė, R. et al. Early fungal community succession following crown fire in Pinus mugo stands and surface fire in Pinus sylvestris stands. Eur J Forest Res 133, 745–756 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-013-0738-6

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