Production of Fungal Mycelia in a Temperate Coniferous Forest Shows Distinct Seasonal Patterns

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof6040190" target="_blank" >10.3390/jof6040190</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Production of Fungal Mycelia in a Temperate Coniferous Forest Shows Distinct Seasonal Patterns

Original language description

In temperate forests, climate seasonality restricts the photosynthetic activity of primary producers to the warm season from spring to autumn, while the cold season with temperatures below the freezing point represents a period of strongly reduced plant activity. Although soil microorganisms are active all-year-round, their expressions show seasonal patterns. This is especially visible on the ectomycorrhizal fungi, the most abundant guild of fungi in coniferous forests. We quantified the production of fungal mycelia using ingrowth sandbags in the organic layer of soil in temperate coniferous forest and analysed the composition of fungal communities in four consecutive seasons. We show that fungal biomass production is as low as 0.029 µg g−1 of sand in December–March, while it reaches 0.122 µg g−1 in June–September. The majority of fungi show distinct patterns of seasonal mycelial production, with most ectomycorrhizal fungi colonising ingrowth bags in the spring or summer, while the autumn and winter colonisation was mostly due to moulds. Our results indicate that fungal taxa differ in their seasonal patterns of mycelial production. Although fungal biomass turnover appears all-year-round, its rates are much faster in the period of plant activity than in the cold season.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10606 - Microbiology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Fungi

ISSN

2309-608X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

190

UT code for WoS article

000601726900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85091642022