Community Turnover of Wood-Inhabiting Fungi across Hierarchical Spatial Scales

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103416
• Publication Date: 2014-07-25T05:35:12Z
• Authors: Nerea Abrego; Gonzalo García-Ba...; Panu Halme; Otso Ovaskainen; Isabel Salcedo
• Keywords: Gamma diversity; Community

For efficient use of conservation resources it is important to determine how species diversity changes across spatial scales. In many poorly known groups little about at which scales the efforts should be focused. Here we examined community turnover wood-inhabiting fungi realised three hierarchical levels, and much variation explained by in resource composition proximity. The study design consisted management type (fixed factor), forest site (random factor, nested within type) plots (randomly placed each site). To examine richness varied scales, randomized accumulation curves additive partitioning were applied. analyse dead wood scale, linear Permanova modelling approaches used. Wood-inhabiting fungal communities dominated rare infrequent species. similarity was higher sites categories than among or between two categories, decreased with increasing distance sampling decreasing resources. However, only a small part could these factors. present managed forests large extent subset those natural forests. Our results suggest that particular protection requires total area. As have additional value complementing forests, key ecologically effective conservation. dissimilarity increases distance, conserved broadly distributed space, yet individual areas enough ensure local persistence.