Plant Protect. Sci., 2014, 50(4):221-226 | DOI: 10.17221/25/2014-PPS

Fungi in living and dead stems and stumps of Pinus mugo on coastal dunes of the Baltic SeaOriginal Paper

Vaidotas LYGIS1, Ieva VASILIAUSKAITE2, Antanas MATELIS1, Alfas PLIRA3, Rimvydas VASAITIS4
1 Laboratory of Phytopathogenic Microorganisms, Institute of Botany of Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
2 Agronomy Faculty, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Kaunas, Lithuania
3 Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding Department, Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Kaunas, Lithuania
4 Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Communities of xylotrophic fungi were studied in wood of Pinus mugo of different qualities: (i) living stems, (ii) cut stumps, (iii) burned snags, (iv) cut burned stumps, (v) stems recently killed by root rot, and (vi) old snags of root rot-killed trees. A total of 277 isolates representing 58 fungal taxa were obtained from 300 wood samples (50 samples per each substrate category). Results of the present study suggested that following different disturbances (tree felling, forest fire or root rot), fungal communities likely evolve in different directions: depending on its origin (cut, burned or killed by the disease), dead wood might be inhabited by principally different microbial assemblages, and that fire has less effect on community structures than tree felling or root rot.

Keywords: forest fire; fungal diversity; mountain pine; mycobiota; root rot; succession

Published: December 31, 2014  Show citation

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LYGIS V, VASILIAUSKAITE I, MATELIS A, PLIRA A, VASAITIS R. Fungi in living and dead stems and stumps of Pinus mugo on coastal dunes of the Baltic Sea. Plant Protect. Sci. 2014;50(4):221-226. doi: 10.17221/25/2014-PPS.
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