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TEMPORAL VARIATION OF WOOD-FUNGI DIVERSITY IN BOREAL OLD-GROWTH FORESTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING

Name: TEMPORAL VARIATION OF WOOD-FUNGI DIVERSITY IN BOREAL OLD-GROWTH FORESTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR MONITORING
Keywords: Environmental Science, Ecology, FOS: Biological sciences

Berglund, Håkan; Edman, Mattias; Ericson, Lars;

Published: 04 Aug 2016

Publisher: Figshare

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Monitoring programs that supply reliable and sufficient information on numbers and types of organisms are essential for following changes in biodiversity. In boreal Fennoscandia, forest-dwelling species are threatened in managed forest landscapes and, thus, are of particular concern for conservation strategies. Wood fungi represent key ecological components in the boreal forest that are sensitive to forestry and widely used as indicators in large-scale forest inventories for identifying valuable forest habitats. Knowledge of their natural dynamics is required for designing monitoring programs to assess the adequacy of conservation strategies. We studied the occu...