Zervakis, G. I. & Venturella, G.: Adverse effects of human activities on the diversity of macrofungi in forest ecosystems. — Bocconea 21: 77-84. 2007. — ISSN 1120-4060. A rapid decrease in the size and composition of macromycetes populations has been observed in various regions of Europe. Such changes have been mainly attributed (directly or indirectly) to human interference, and most notably t...

Lindhe, A. 2004. Conservation through management – cut wood as substrate for saproxylic organisms. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1401-6230, ISBN 91-576-6534-6 The experience of naturalists indicate that many forest species have become more rare as a result of intensive forest management. As less dead wood is one of the key changes in most forests, saproxylic organisms tend to be especially vulner...

Recent meta-analyses of fungal diversity using deeply sequenced marker genes suggest that most fungal taxa are locally distributed. However, little is known about the extent of overlap and niche partitions in total fungal communities or functional guilds within distinct habitats on a local forest scale. Here, we compared fungal communities in endosphere (leaf interior), phyllosphere (leaf inter...

Herbaceous plant species are important components of forest ecosystems, and their persistence in forests may be affected by invasive plant species that reduce mycorrhizal colonization of plant roots. I examined the effect of the invasive plant Alliaria petiolata on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonizing the roots of three forest plant species. AMF root colonization and community structur...

The largest forest pest epidemic in Canadian history caused by the mountain pine beetle (MPB) and its fungal associates has killed over 15 million hectares of forest. Sixty simple sequence repeat regions were identified from Grosmannia clavigera, an MPB associated fungus. Eight loci genotyped in 53 isolates from two populations in British Columbia, Canada revealed three to 10 alleles per locus ...

In the framework of the collection and identification of agaric fungi of Iran, three species of the genus Lepiota, viz. Lepiota brunneoincarnata, L. echinella and L. subincarnata are reported as new records for mycobiota of Iran. Two species, L. brunneoincarnata and L. subincarnata are deadly poisonous taxa. Up to now, two species of Amanita, A. phalloides and A. verna, and one from Galerina, G...

The Agaricomycotina are a phylogenetically diverse group of fungi that includes both saprotrophic and mycorrhizal species, and that form species--rich communities in forest ecosystems. Most species are infrequently observed, and this hampers assessment of the role that environmental heterogeneity plays in determining local community composition and in driving beta-diversity. We used a combinati...

The aim of the study was to describe seasonal changes in numbers and settlement of basidiocarps of tinder fungus [Fomes fomentarius (L. ex Fr.) Kick] by the coleopteran Bolitophagus reticulatus L. in relation to the weight and the stage of decomposition of a basidiocarp in different types of forest habitats. Tinder fungi, which contained the coleopterans, were collected from four sample plots l...

The wood decay fungi are a diverse taxonomic group that plays a pivotal role in forest carbon cycling. Wood decay fungi use various enzymatic pathways to digest dead or living wood in order to obtain carbon and other nutrients and these enzymatic systems have been exploited for both industrial and medical applications. Over 600 wood decay fungi species have been described in Korea; however, the...

chestnut-leaved oak (quercus castaneifolia) is one of the most important industrial species of the northern forests of iran. regeneration of this valuable species is limited due to several problems such us pests and the fungal diseases. in order to isolate and identify the fungi associated with oak seed, sampling was carried out during 2007 in shast-kalate forest at gorgan. collected seeds were...