Prevalence of water and nutrient availability in structuring fungal communities of healthy and decaying beech trees in forests
F. Fracchia, Benjamin Dauphin, Lorenz Walthert, René Graf, Roger Köchli, S. Pfister, Andri Baltensweiler, Annegret Kohler, Martina Peter
The paper examines how water and nutrient availability shape fungal communities in beech trees, finding that water shortage has a greater impact than tree vitality on fungal community structure.
Plant and Soil · Oct 8, 2025Peer-reviewedEcology