A thready affair: linking fungal diversity and community dynamics to terrestrial decomposition processes

• Published in: FEMS microbiology reviews Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 477 - 494
• Main Authors: van der Wal, Annemieke, Geydan, Thomas D., Kuyper, Thomas W., de Boer, Wietse
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2013; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: active fungi; Carbon Cycle; carbon cycling; Climate change; Decomposition; diversity–functioning relationship; Ecosystem; functional diversity; fungal ecology; Fungi; Fungi - growth & development; global change; Global Warming; home-field advantage; leaf-litter decomposition; microbial community; niche differentiation; nitrogen deposition; Organic matter; Soil Microbiology; soil organic-matter; succession; temperature sensitivity; Terrestrial environments; white-rot fungi; wood-decaying fungi; carbon cycling; succession; diversity–functioning relationship; niche differentiation; fungal ecology; global change

Abstract Filamentous fungi are critical to the decomposition of terrestrial organic matter and, consequently, in the global carbon cycle. In particular, their contribution to degradation of recalcitrant lignocellulose complexes has been widely studied. In this review, we focus on the functioning of...