TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rudolph, Stefanie
A1  - Maciá-Vicente, Jose G.
A1  - Lotz-Winter, Hermine
A1  - Schleuning, Matthias
A1  - Piepenbring, Meike
T1  - Temporal variation of fungal diversity in a mosaic landscape in Germany
T2  - Studies in mycology
N2  - This study aims at characterizing the diversity and temporal changes of species richness and composition of fungi in an ecotone of a forest border and a meadow in the Taunus mountain range in Germany. All macroscopically visible, epigeous fungi and vascular plants were sampled monthly over three years, together with climatic variables like humidity and temperature that influence fungal diversity and composition as shown by previous studies. In this mosaic landscape, a total of 855 fungal species were collected and identified based on morphological features, the majority of which belonged to Ascomycota (51 %) and Basidiomycota (45 %). Records of fungal species and plant species (218) for this area yielded a fungus to plant species ratio of 4:1, with a plant species accumulation curve that reached saturation. The three years of monitoring, however, were not sufficient to reveal the total fungal species richness and estimation factors showed that a fungus to plant species ratio of 6:1 may be reached by further sampling efforts. The effect of climatic conditions on fungal species richness differed depending on the taxonomic and ecological group, with temporal patterns of occurrence of Basidiomycota and mycorrhizal fungi being strongly associated with temperature and humidity, whereas the other fungal groups were only weakly related to abiotic conditions. In conclusion, long-term, monthly surveys over several years yield a higher diversity of macroscopically visible fungi than standard samplings of fungi in autumn. The association of environmental variables with the occurrence of specific fungal guilds may help to improve estimators of fungal richness in temperate regions.
KW  - Ascomycota
KW  - Basidiomycota
KW  - Fungi
KW  - Seasonal trend decomposition
KW  - Species composition
KW  - Temporal variation
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46817
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468171
SN  - 1872-9797
SN  - 1872-9797
N1  - © 2018 Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute. Production and hosting by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
VL  - 89
SP  - 95
EP  - 104
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -