The diversity of wood-decaying fungi in relation to changing site conditions in an old-growth mountain spruce forest, Central Europe

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-231

  Pouska, Václav ^a   Svoboda, Miroslav ^b   Lepšová, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Altitude; Coarse woody debris; Dacryomyces stillatus; Fomitopsis pinicola; Norway spruce; Phellinus nigrolimitatus

Indexed keywords

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; FUNGUS; MORTALITY; RED LIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; CORIOLACEAE; FOMITOPSIS PINICOLA; FUNGI; PHELLOPILUS NIGROLIMITATUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 77954954381     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-009-0324-0     Document Type: Article

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