Specialist species of wood-inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 701-712

  Nordén, Jenni ^a,b,d   Penttilä, Reijo ^b,c   Siitonen, Juha ^b   Tomppo, Erkki ^b   Ovaskainen, Otso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Dead wood; Extinction risk; Habitat fragmentation; Hierarchical Bayesian models; Life history traits; Polypores; Red listed species; Resource use; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CONNECTIVITY; DEAD WOOD; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION RISK; FUNGUS; GENERALIST; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RED LIST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION; SPORE; WOOD;

FENNOSCANDIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84876685324     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12085     Document Type: Article

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