I summarize current knowledge about the ecosystem functions of wood decomposition in
forests with a particular focus on the effects of fungal wood decay types (traditionally …

The amount of carbon stored in deadwood is equivalent to about 8 per cent of the global
forest carbon stocks. The decomposition of deadwood is largely governed by climate,,–with …

One of the main threats to forests in the Anthropocene are novel or altered interactions
among trees, insects and fungi. To critically assess the contemporary research on bark …

Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) provides more comprehensive, efficient, and
non‐invasive sampling of biological communities than conventional methods. However …

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 …

Biodiverse communities have been shown to sustain high levels of multifunctionality and
thus a loss of species likely negatively impacts ecosystem functions. For most taxa, however …

Background Retention forestry is a management strategy aiming to mitigate biodiversity loss
by retaining structural elements such as dead trees that would otherwise be removed. Here …

Sapwood comprises much above-ground forest biomass, but its mycobiome in living trees is
largely unknown. Here, we characterize the endophytic fungal communities of the functional …

Wood decomposition in tropical forests is strongly linked to the terrestrial carbon cycle. Our
understanding of the successional changes in wood decomposition in diverse tropical …

Metabarcoding is an important tool for understanding fungal communities. The internal
transcribed spacer (ITS) rDNA is the accepted fungal barcode but has known problems. The …