Hypocrealean (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) fungal diversity in different stages of tropical forest succession in Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 531-543

  Chaverri, Priscila ^a,b   Vílchez, Braulio ^c  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Ascomycetes; Biodiversity; Costa Rica; Deforestation; Forest disturbance; Forest fragmentation; Forest succession; Fungi; Tropical wet forest

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; INSECT; PATHOGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ASCOMYCOTA; CLAVICIPITACEAE; FUNGI; HYPOCREALES; INSECTA; NECTRIACEAE;

EID: 33745049003     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2006.00176.x     Document Type: Article

References (76)

1. Albrecht L. 1991. The importance of dead woody material in forests. Forstwiss. Centr. bl. 110 : 106 113.
2. Alexopoulos C. J. C. W. Mims, and M. Blackwell. 1996. Introductory mycology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
3. Bader P. S. Jansson, and B. G. Jonsson. 1995. Wood-inhabiting fungi and substratum decline in selectively logged boreal spruce forests. Biol. Conserv. 72 : 355 362.
4. Berger E. W. 1921. Natural enemies of scale-insects and white-flies in Florida. Fla. State Plant Bd. Q. Bull. 5 : 141 154.
5. Bills G. F., and J. D. Polishook. 1994. Abundance and diversity of microfungi in leaf litter of a lowland rain forest in Costa Rica. Mycologia 86 : 187 198.
6. Brady B. L. 1981. Fungi as parasites of insects and mites. Biocontrol News Inf. 2 : 281 296.
7. Brown S., and A. E. Lugo. 1990. Tropical secondary forests. J. Trop. Ecol. 6 : 1 32.
8. Byrd K. B. V. T. Parker D. R. Vogler, and K. W. Cullings. 2000. The influence of clear-cutting on ectomycorrhizal fungus diversity in a lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stand, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, and Gallatin National Forest, Montana. Can. J. Bot. 78 : 149 156.
9. Cantrell S. A. 2004. A comparison of two sampling strategies to assess Discomycete diversity in wet tropical forests. Caribb. J. Sci. 40 : 8 16.
10. Carruthers R. I., and K. Hural. 1990. Fungi as naturally occurring entomopathogens. New directions in biological control: Alternatives for suppressing agricultural pests and diseases, Alan R. Liss, pp. 115 138.
11. Chaverri P., and K. T. Hodge. 2005. The genus Podocrella and its nematode-killing anamorph Harposporium. Mycologia 97 : 433 443.
12. Chaverri P., and G. J. Samuels. 2003. Hypocrea/Trichoderma: Species with green ascospores. Stud. Mycol. 48 : 1 116.
13. Chazdon R. L. 2003. Tropical forest recovery: Legacies of human impact and natural disturbances. Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 6 : 51 71.
14. Coddington J. A. C. E. Groswold D. S. Davila E. Penaranda, and S. F. Larcher. 1991. Designing and testing sampling protocols to estimate biodiversity in tropical ecosystems. In E. C. Dudley ( Eds The unity of evolutionary biology: Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, pp. 44 60. Dioscorides Press, Portland.
15. Crous P. W. 2002. Taxonomy and pathology of Cylindrocladium (Calonectria) and allied genera. APS Press, St. Paul, Minnesota.
16. de Castro E. B. V., and F. A. S. Fernandez. 2004. Determinants of differential extinction vulnerabilities of small mammals in Atlantic forest fragments in Brazil. Biol. Conserv. 119 : 73 80.
17. Esseen P. A. B. Ehnstöm L. Ericson, and K. Sjöberg. 1992. Boreal forests-the focal habitats of Fennoscandia. In L. Hansson ( Ed Ecological principles of nature conservation. Applications in temperate and boreal environments, pp. 252 325. Elsevier Applied Science, London.
18. Esser R. P., and N. E. El-Gholl. 1993. Paecilomyces lilacinus, a fungus that parasitizes nematode eggs. Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, Nematology Circular 203.
19. Fiedler K., and C. H. Schulze. 2004. Forest modification affects diversity (but not dynamics) of speciose tropical pyraloid moth communities. Biotropica 36 : 615 627.
20. Finegan B. 1996. Pattern and process in neotropical secondary rain forests: The first 100 years of succession. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11 : 119 124.
21. Franklin J. F. H. H. Shugart, and M. E. Harmon. 1987. Tree death as an ecological process. The causes, consequences, and variability of tree mortality. Bioscience 37 : 550 556.
22. Gascon C., and T. E. Lovejoy. 1998. Ecological impacts of forest fragmentation in Central Amazonia. Zool. Anal. Complex Syst. 101 : 273 280.
23. Gromovich T. I. V. M. Gukasian T. I. Golovanova, and S. V. Shmarlovskaya. 1998. Trichoderma harzianum Rifai aggr. as a factor enhancing tomato plants' resistance to the root rotting pathogens. Mikol. Fitopatol. 32 : 73 78.
24. Hagerman S. M. M. D. Jones G. E. Bradfield M. Gillespie, and D. M. Durall. 1999. Effects of clear-cut logging on the diversity and persistence of ectomycorrhizae at a subalpine forest. Can. J. For. Res. 29 : 124 134.
25. Hawksworth D. L. 1991. The fungal dimension of biodiversity: Magnitude, significance, and conservation. Mycol. Res. 95 : 641 655.
26. Hessburg P. F. B. G. Smith R. B. Salter R. D. Ottmar, and E. Alvarado. 2000. Recent changes (1930s-1990s) in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests, USA. For. Ecol. Manage. 136 : 53 83.
27. Hoffman C. A., and C. R. Carroll. 1995. Can we sustain the biological basis of agriculture? Ann. Revi. Ecol. Syst. 26 : 69 92.
28. Horne R., and J. Hickey. 1991. Ecological sensitivity of Australian rainforests to selective logging. Aust. J. Ecol. 16 : 119 129.
29. Horne R., and C. Mackowski. 1987. Crown dieback, overstorey regrowth and regeneration response in warm temperate rainforest following logging. Fore. Ecol. Manage. 22 : 283 289.
30. Inbar J. D. Abramshy D. Cohen, and I. Chet. 1994. Plant growth enhancement and disease control by Trichoderma harzianum in vegetable seedlings grown under commercial conditions. European J. Plant Pathol. 100 : 337 346.
31. Krebs C. J. 1998. Ecological methodology. Benjamin/Cummings, California.
32. Kumar D. S. S., and K. D. Hyde. 2004. Biodiversity and tissue recurrence of endophytic fungi in Tripterygium wildfordii. Fungal Div. 17 : 69 90.
33. Lee S. V. Mel'nik J. E. Taylor, and P. W. Crous. 2004. Diversity of saprobic hyphomycetes on Proteaceae and Restionaceae from South Africa. Fungal Div. 17 : 91 114.
34. Lee S. F. Roets, and P. W. Crous. 2005. Protea infructescences represent a unique fungal niche. Fungal Div. 19 : 69 78.
35. Lei G., and I. Hanski. 1998. Spatial dynamics of two competing specialist parasitoids in a host metapopulation. J. Anim. Ecol. 67 : 422 433.
36. Maina G., and H. F. Howe. 2000. Inherent rarity in community restoration. Conserv. Biol. 14 : 1335 1340.
37. Malaguti G., and L. C. Dereyes. 1964. Gall disease of cacao and mango in Venezuela caused by Calonectria rigidiuscula. Phytopathology 54 : 499.
38. Martinez-Garza C., and H. F. Howe. 2003. Restoring tropical diversity: Beating the time tax on species loss. J. Appl. Ecol. 40 : 423 429.
39. Moore D. M. M. Nauta S. E. Evans, and M. Rotheroe ( Eds 2001. Fungal conservation: Issues and solutions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
40. Myers N. 1992. The primary source: Tropical forests and our future. W.W. Norton & Company, New York.
41. Naeem S., and J. P. Wright. 2003. Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: Deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecol. Letters. 6 : 567 579.
42. Naidoo R. 2004. Species richness and community composition of songbirds in a tropical forest-agricultural landscape. Anim. Conserv. 7 : 93 105.
43. Nelson P. E. T. A. Toussoun, and R. J. Cook ( Eds 1981. Fusarium diseases, Biology, and taxonomy. The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania.
44. Norden B., and H. Paltto. 2001. Wood-decay fungi in hazel wood: Species richness correlated to stand age and dead wood features. Biol. Conserv. 101 : 1 8.
45. Okland B. 1994. Mycetophilidae (Diptera), an insect group vulnerable to forestry practices-A comparison of clear-cut, managed and seminatural spruce forests in Southern Norway. Biodiv. Conserv. 3 : 68 85.
46. Palmer M. W. 1994. Variation in species richness: Towards a unification of hypotheses. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 29 : 511 530.
47. Peña-Claros M. 2003. Changes in forest structure and species composition during secondary forest succession in the Bolivian Amazon. Biotropica 35 : 450 461.
48. Ploetz R. A. Vazquez, and D. Benscher. 1996. First report of Fusarium decemcellulare as a patogen of mango in the United States. Plant Dis. 80 : 1207.
49. Polishook J. D. G. F. Bills, and D. J. Lodge. 1996. Microfungi from decaying leaves of two rain forest trees in Puerto Rico. J. Ind. Microbiol. 17 : 284 294.
50. Rambelli A. A. M. Persiani O. Maggi S. Onofri S. Riess G. Dowgiallo, and L. Zucconi. 1984. Comparative studies on microfungi in tropical ecosystems. Further mycological studies in South West Ivory Coast forest. Report no. 2. G. Bot. Ital. 118 : 201 243.
51. Rambelli A. L. Zucconi S. Onofri, and L. Quadraccia. 1991. Comparative studies on microfungi in tropical ecosystems. Conclusive mycological studies in South Western Ivory Coast forest litter. Report no. 3. G. Bot. Ital. 125 : 779 796.
52. Rossman A.Y. G. J. Samuels C. T. Rogerson, and R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Stud. Mycol. 42 : 1 248.
53. Rossman A.Y. R. E. Tulloss T. E. O'Dell, and R. G. Thorn 1998. Protocols for an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory of fungi in a Costa Rican conservation area. Parkway Publishers, Inc., Boone, North Carolina.
54. Rukke B. A. 2000. Effects of habitat fragmentation: Increased isolation and reduced habitat size reduces the incidence of dead wood fungi beetles in fragmented forest landscape. Ecogeography 23 : 492 502.
55. Sader S., and A. Joyce. 1988. Deforestation rates and trends in Costa Rica, 1940 to 1983. Biotropica 20 : 11 19.
56. Sala O. E. F. S. Chapin J. J. Armesto E. Berlow J. Bloomfield R. Dirzo E. Huber-Sanwald L. F. Huenneke R. B. Jackson A. Kinzig R. Leemans D. M. Lodge H. A. Mooney M. Oesterheld N. L. Poff M. T. Sykes B. H. Walker M. Walker, and D. H. Wall. 2000. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science 287 : 1770 1774.
57. Samuels G. J. 1996a. Trichoderma: A review of biology and systematics of the genus. Mycol. Res. 100 : 923 935.
58. Samuels G. J. 1996b. Tropical hypocreales. In K. D. Hyde ( Ed Diversity of tropical microfungi, pp. 297 325. University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong.
59. Sánchez G. A. 1996. Assessing land use/cover change in Costa Rica. Ph. D. dissertation, pp 186. The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania.
60. Schroers H.-J. 2001. A monograph of Bionectria (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Bionectriaceae) and its Clonostachys anamorphs. Stud. Mycol. 46 : 1 214.
61. Schulz B., and C. Boyle. 2005. The endophytic continuum. Mycol. Res. 109 : 661 686.
62. Smith J. E. R. Molina M. M. P. Huso D. L. Luoma D. McKay M. A. Castellano T. Lebel, and Y. Valachovic. 2002. Species richness, abundance, and composition of hypogeous and epigeous ectomycorrhizal fungal sporocarps in young, rotation-age, and old-growth stands of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in the Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. Can. J. Bot. 80 : 186 204.
63. Solórzano R. ( Ed 1992. La depreciación de los recursos naturales de Costa Rica y su relación con el sistema de cuencas nacionales. Centro Científico Tropical, San José.
64. Staley J. T. 1997. Biodiversity: Are microbial species threatened? Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 8 : 340 345.
65. Stover R. H. 1981. Fusarium diseases in the tropics. In P. E. Nelson T. A. Toussoun, and R. J. Cook ( Eds Fusarium diseases, biology, and taxonomy, pp. 114 120. The Pennsylvania State University - University Park, Pennsylvania.
66. Summerville K. S. 2004. Do smaller forest fragments contain a greater abundance of Lepidopteran crop and forage consumers? Environ. Entomol. 33 : 234 241.
67. Sverdrup-Thygeson A., and D. B. Lindenmayer. 2003. Ecological continuity and assumed indicator fungi in boreal forest: The importance of the landscape matrix. For. Ecol. Manage. 174 : 353 363.
68. Tabarelli M. M. J. C. Da Silva, and C. Gascon. 2004. Forest fragmentation, synergisms and the impoverishment of neotropical forests. Biodiv. Conserv. 13 : 1419 1425.
69. Thies W. G. 2001. Root diseases in eastern Oregon and Washington. Northwest Sci. 75 : 38 45.
70. Tsui K. M. S. C. Fryar I. J. Hodgkiss K. D. Hyde A. D. Poonyth, and J. E. Taylor. 1998. The effect of human disturbance on fungal diversity in the tropics. Fungal Div. 1 : 19 26.
71. Turner I. M. 1996. Species loss in fragments of tropical rain forests: A review of the evidence. J. Appl. Ecol. 33 : 200 209.
72. Turner I. M. Y. K. Wong P. T. Chew, and A. binIbrahim. 1997. Tree species richness in primary and old secondary tropical forest in Singapore. Biodiv. Conserv. 6 : 537 543.
73. Waltert M. A. Mardiastuti, and M. Mühlenberg. 2004. Effects of land use on bird species richness in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Conserv. Biol. 18 : 1339 1346.
74. Yedidia I. A. K. Srivastava Y. Kapulnik, and I. Chet. 2001. Effect of Trichoderma harzianum on microelement concentrations and increased growth of cucumber plants. Plant Soil 235 : 235 242.
75. Zhu H. Z. F. Xu H. Wang, and B. G. Li. 2004. Tropical rain forest fragmentation and its ecological and species diversity changes in southern Yunnan. Biodi. Conserv. 13 : 1355 1372.
76. Zou X. C. P. Zucca R. B. Waide, and W. H. McDowell. 1995. Long-term influence of deforestation on tree species composition and litter dynamics of a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico. For. Ecol. Manage. 78 : 147 157.