Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation

Witoon Purahong; Danuta Kapturska; Marek J. Pecyna; Katalee Jariyavidyanont; Jennifer Kaunzner; Kantida Juncheed; Tanaporn Uengwetwanit; Renate Rudloff; Elke Schulz; Martin Hofrichter; Michael Schloter; Dirk Krüger; François Buscot

doi:10.1007/s00248-015-0585-8

Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation

Witoon Purahong, Danuta Kapturska, Marek J. Pecyna, Katalee Jariyavidyanont, Jennifer Kaunzner, Kantida Juncheed, Tanaporn Uengwetwanit, Renate Rudloff, Elke Schulz, Martin Hofrichter, Michael Schloter, Dirk Krüger, François Buscot

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Forest management practices (FMPs) significantly influence important ecological processes and services in Central European forests, such as leaf litter decomposition and nutrient cycling. Changes in leaf litter diversity, and thus, its quality as well as microbial community structure and function induced by different FMPs were hypothesized to be the main drivers causing shifts in decomposition rates and nutrient release in managed forests. In a litterbag experiment lasting 473 days, we aimed to investigate the effects of FMPs (even-aged timber management, selective logging and unmanaged) on bacterial and fungal communities involved in leaf litter degradation over time. Our results showed that microbial communities in leaf litter were strongly influenced by both FMPs and sampling date. The results from nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination revealed distinct patterns of bacterial and fungal successions over time in leaf litter. We demonstrated that FMPs and sampling dates can influence a range of factors, including leaf litter quality, microbial macronutrients, and pH, which significantly correlate with microbial community successions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	905-913
Number of pages	9
Journal	Microbial Ecology
Volume	69
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0585-8
State	Published - 1 May 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bacterial diversity
Decomposition rates
Forest management
Fungal diversity
Lignocellulose decomposition
Microbial community
Nutrient release

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Purahong, W., Kapturska, D., Pecyna, M. J., Jariyavidyanont, K., Kaunzner, J., Juncheed, K., Uengwetwanit, T., Rudloff, R., Schulz, E., Hofrichter, M., Schloter, M., Krüger, D., & Buscot, F. (2015). Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation. Microbial Ecology, 69(4), 905-913. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0585-8

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Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation

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