The boreal forests of Fennoscandia are largely dominated by Norway spruce and Scots
pine. Conifer monocultures have been favoured in forest management during the last …

Decaying wood plays an important role in forest biodiversity, nutrient cycling and carbon
balance. Community structure of wood-inhabiting fungi changes with mass loss of wood, but …

We investigated the interaction between fungal communities of soil and dead wood
substrates. For this, we applied molecular species identification and stable isotope tracking …

Current knowledge of the succession of fungi in decaying wood is mostly based on fruit
bodies and in vitro culture. Here, we investigated the changing community of metabolically …

Forest harvesting activities can cause soil damage and disturbance through soil compaction,
rut formation and soil mixing. These affect the soil structure and functions and forest …

Quantification of fine root biomass is needed for estimating the role of roots as carbon (C)
stores and sources of C input into the soil, as well as for modelling of forest nutrient cycling …

We investigated the fungal communities inhabiting decaying logs in a seminatural boreal
forest stand in relation to host tree species, stage of decay, density, diameter, moisture, C to …

Aim Ground lichens have declined in boreal and temperate Europe. The potential causes of
the decline were explored by analysing the response of lichen cover to forest management …

The objective was to analyse how differences in the initial proportions of tree species and
site fertility affect carbon sequestration in living biomass and soil. We used the individual …

Forest soils store large amounts of carbon (C), and releases of C from this pool may
significantly increase the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Organic matter …