Surviving trees and deadwood moderate changes in soil fungal communities and associated functioning after natural forest disturbance and salvage logging

• Published in: Soil biology & biochemistry Vol. 166; p. 108558
• Main Authors: Mayer, Mathias, Rosinger, Christoph, Gorfer, Markus, Berger, Harald, Deltedesco, Evi, Bässler, Claus, Müller, Jörg, Seifert, Linda, Rewald, Boris, Godbold, Douglas L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2022; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agricultural sciences; Bark beetle; bark beetles; Biodiversity and Ecology; dead wood; Ecology, environment; Ecosystems; ectomycorrhizae; Ectomycorrhizal fungi; Environmental Sciences; Enzyme activity; enzymes; ergosterol; forest damage; Forest disturbance; fungal biomass; Life Sciences; Picea abies; Salvage logging; saprotrophs; Silviculture, forestry; Soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; Soil fungi; soil organic matter; Soil organic matter decomposition; Soil study; trees; Windthrow; Salvage logging; Bark beetle; Enzyme activity; Soil fungi; Soil organic matter decomposition; Windthrow; Soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; Forest disturbance; Ectomycorrhizal fungi

Temperate forests are increasingly subject to natural disturbance by stand replacing windthrows or bark-beetle attacks. Forests are commonly salvage logged after disturbance, whereby substantial parts of biological legacies, such as surviving trees and deadwood, are removed. Despite increasing conce...