Fungi in living and dead stems and stumps of Pinus mugo on coastal dunes of the Baltic Sea

Vaidotas Lygis, Ieva Vasiliauskaite, Antanas Matelis, Alfas Plira and Rimvydas Vasaitis
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Vaidotas Lygis: Laboratory of Phytopathogenic Microorganisms, Institute of Botany of Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Ieva Vasiliauskaite: Agronomy Faculty, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Kaunas, Lithuania
Antanas Matelis: Laboratory of Phytopathogenic Microorganisms, Institute of Botany of Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Alfas Plira: Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding Department, Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Kaunas, Lithuania
Rimvydas Vasaitis: Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Plant Protection Science, 2014, vol. 50, issue 4, 221-226

Abstract: Communities of xylotrophic fungi were studied in wood of Pinus mugo of different qualities: (i) living stems, (ii) cut stumps, (iii) burned snags, (iv) cut burned stumps, (v) stems recently killed by root rot, and (vi) old snags of root rot-killed trees. A total of 277 isolates representing 58 fungal taxa were obtained from 300 wood samples (50 samples per each substrate category). Results of the present study suggested that following different disturbances (tree felling, forest fire or root rot), fungal communities likely evolve in different directions: depending on its origin (cut, burned or killed by the disease), dead wood might be inhabited by principally different microbial assemblages, and that fire has less effect on community structures than tree felling or root rot.

Keywords: forest fire; fungal diversity; mountain pine; mycobiota; root rot; succession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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