Home-Field Advantage in Wood Decomposition Is Mainly Mediated by Fungal Community Shifts at “Home” Versus “Away”

Increasing N deposition impacts neither diversity nor functions of deadwood-inhabiting fungal communities, but adaptation and functional redundancy ensure ecosystem function

(2018) Witoon Purahong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanotrophs are core members of the diazotroph community in decaying Norway spruce logs

(2018) Raisa Mäkipää et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Home-field advantages of litter decomposition increase with increasing N deposition rates: a litter and soil perspective

(2017) Ying-Bin Li et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Molecular evidence strongly supports deadwood-inhabiting fungi exhibiting unexpected tree species preferences in temperate forests

(2017) Witoon Purahong et al.   ISME Journal

Specific leaf area and leaf area index in developing stands of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies Karst.

(2016) Bohdan Konôpka et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fungal endophytes as priority colonizers initiating wood decomposition

(2016) Zewei Song et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Are correlations between deadwood fungal community structure, wood physico-chemical properties and lignin-modifying enzymes stable across different geographical regions?

(2016) Witoon Purahong et al.   Fungal Ecology

Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

(2016) Witoon Purahong et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Induction of Laccase, Lignin Peroxidase and Manganese Peroxidase Activities in White-Rot Fungi Using Copper Complexes

(2016) Martina Vrsanska et al.   MOLECULES

Bacterial Community Succession in Pine-Wood Decomposition

(2016) Anna M. Kielak et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Tree species, tree genotypes and tree genotypic diversity levels affect microbe-mediated soil ecosystem functions in a subtropical forest

(2016) Witoon Purahong et al.   Scientific Reports

Lignocellulose-converting enzyme activity profiles correlate with molecular systematics and phylogeny grouping in the incoherent genus Phlebia (Polyporales, Basidiomycota)

(2015) Jaana Kuuskeri et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns of laccase and peroxidases in coarse woody debris of Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris and their relation to different wood parameters

(2015) Tobias Arnstadt et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Environmental factors and traits that drive plant litter decomposition do not determine home-field advantage effects

(2015) G. F. Ciska Veen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking molecular deadwood-inhabiting fungal diversity and community dynamics to ecosystem functions and processes in Central European forests

(2015) Björn Hoppe et al.   FUNGAL DIVERSITY

Tree genotype mediates covariance among communities from microbes to lichens and arthropods

(2015) Louis J. Lamit et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Composition of fungal and bacterial communities in forest litter and soil is largely determined by dominant trees

(2015) Michaela Urbanová et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A pyrosequencing insight into sprawling bacterial diversity and community dynamics in decaying deadwood logs of Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies

(2015) Björn Hoppe et al.   Scientific Reports

Forest Management Type Influences Diversity and Community Composition of Soil Fungi across Temperate Forest Ecosystems

(2015) Kezia Goldmann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Influence of Commonly Used Primer Systems on Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Environmental Samples

(2015) Witoon Purahong et al.   PLoS One

Diversity and Interactions of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi and Beetles after Deadwood Enrichment

(2015) Andreas Floren et al.   PLoS One

Near-to-nature logging influences fungal community assembly processes in a temperate forest

(2014) Claus Bässler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Changes within a single land-use category alter microbial diversity and community structure: Molecular evidence from wood-inhabiting fungi in forest ecosystems

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Comparing fungal richness and community composition in coarse woody debris in Central European beech forests under three types of management

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS

There's no place like home? An exploration of the mechanisms behind plant litter-decomposer affinity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Amy T. Austin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Litter quality and environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition

(2014) G. F. Ciska Veen et al.   OIKOS

Network Analysis Reveals Ecological Links between N-Fixing Bacteria and Wood-Decaying Fungi

(2014) Björn Hoppe et al.   PLoS One

Influence of Different Forest System Management Practices on Leaf Litter Decomposition Rates, Nutrient Dynamics and the Activity of Ligninolytic Enzymes: A Case Study from Central European Forests

(2014) Witoon Purahong et al.   PLoS One

A comprehensive aligned nifH gene database: a multipurpose tool for studies of nitrogen-fixing bacteria

(2014) John Christian Gaby et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Loss of diversity in wood-inhabiting fungal communities affects decomposition activity in Norway spruce wood

(2014) Lara Valentín et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissolved organic carbon from European beech logs: Patterns of input to and retention by surface soil

(2013) Tiemo Kahl et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Replacing Norway spruce with European beech: A comparison of biomass and net primary production patterns in young stands

(2013) Bohdan Konôpka et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment

(2012) Johannes H. C. Cornelissen et al.   AMBIO

Fungal community dynamics in relation to substrate quality of decaying Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) logs in boreal forests

(2012) Tiina Rajala et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home-field advantage with a new hypothesis

(2012) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Quantifying land use and disturbance intensity in forestry, based on the self-thinning relationship

(2011) S. Luyssaert et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A global census of nitrogenase diversity

(2011) John Christian Gaby et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

(2010) Markus Fischer et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

A review of habitat thresholds for dead wood: a baseline for management recommendations in European forests

(2010) Jörg Müller et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Do all trees carry the seeds of their own destruction? PCR reveals numerous wood decay fungi latently present in sapwood of a wide range of angiosperm trees

(2010) David Parfitt et al.   Fungal Ecology

Nitrogen metabolism of wood decomposing basidiomycetes and their interaction with diazotrophs as revealed by IRMS

(2010) Petra Weißhaupt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY

Quantifying microbial communities with 454 pyrosequencing: does read abundance count?

(2010) ANTHONY S. AMEND et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Leaf litter decomposition in temperate deciduous forest stands with a decreasing fraction of beech (Fagus sylvatica)

(2010) Mascha Jacob et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tree species effects on soil enzyme activities through effects on soil physicochemical and microbial properties in a tropical montane forest on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo

(2010) Masayuki Ushio et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Effects of attack of saprobic fungi on twig litter decomposition by endophytic fungi

(2009) Yu Fukasawa et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Decay dynamic of coarse and fine woody debris of a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest in Central Germany

(2009) S. Müller-Using et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests

(2009) Edward Ayres et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Modeling Soybean Rust Spore Escape from Infected Canopies: Model Description and Preliminary Results

(2008) David Andrade et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina

(2008) Lucía Vivanco et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY