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Communities of saprobic fungi on leaf litter of Vismia guianensis in remnants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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We examined the mycobiota associated with Vismia guianensis leaf litter in three Atlantic Forest remnants of Brazil’s semiarid region. Among the study sites, two remnants were protected forest reserves, whereas the third was influenced by major anthropogenic activities. Eighteen litter samples were collected in wet and dry seasons and were processed by particle filtration technique. A total of 4750 fungal isolates of 142 taxa were identified. Species richness was higher in litter samples collected during wet season. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling multivariate analysis showed differences in the composition of fungal communities among the sampling sites and the seasons. Analysis of similarity showed that the differences were statistically significant (R = 0.85; P = 0.0001). Our findings revealed that spatial and temporal heterogeneity, and human activities had significant impacts on the saprobic fungi of V. guianensis leaf litter.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for the Doctoral scholarship (Program Postgraduate Botany/UEFS) granted to the first author. The authors thank Lucas Abreu and Ludwig Pfenning, Universidade Federal de Lavras, for help in identifying coelomycetes; to Cristina Motta, the URM Culture Collection, for the identification of the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus; Rafael Ruiz-Castañeda, of the Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agriculture Tropical in Cuba, for help in identifying hyphomycetes; and biologists Carolina Azevedo, Carolina Ribeiro, Ithala Santana, Josiane Monteiro, Lara Almeida, Taiana Conceição and Tasciano Santa Izabel - for technical support of this work.

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Project funding: This study was funded by the “Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade—PPBio Semiárido”.

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Costa, L.A., Gusmão, L.F.P. Communities of saprobic fungi on leaf litter of Vismia guianensis in remnants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. J. For. Res. 28, 163–172 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-016-0268-4

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