Dead wood is a habitat for numerous fungal species, many of which are important agents of
decomposition. Previous studies suggested that wood‐inhabiting fungal communities are …

The identification of traits that influence the responses of the species to environmental
variation provides a mechanistic perspective on the assembly processes of ecological …

The biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship is a central topic in ecology. Fungi are the
dominant decomposers of organic plant material in terrestrial ecosystems and display …

Commercial forestry increasingly aims at both optimizing timber production and maintaining
species diversity. To maintain the diversity of the species-rich group of wood-inhabiting …

Because biased biodiversity surveys may result in ineffective use of conservation or
research resources it is important that measures for biodiversity are accurate. In forest …

We studied fungal succession in decaying wood by compiling time-series data of fruit body
observations. We tested the hypothesis that the presence of a primary species affects the …

Wood‐decaying fungi are crucial for the functioning of forest ecosystems. We tested the
hypotheses that on coarse woody debris (CWD), the abundance, diversity and composition …

Environmental conditions exert strong controls on the activity of saprotrophic microbes, yet
abiotic factors often fail to adequately predict wood decomposition rates across broad spatial …

The evolutionary split between gymnosperms and angiosperms has far‐reaching
implications for the current communities colonizing trees. The inherent characteristics of …

Decomposer communities perform an essential ecosystem function by recycling nutrients.
However, the effect of higher trophic levels on microbial decomposer communities and rate …