Peter Otto

TL;DR: It is concluded that enzyme activity and organismic diversity are the main drivers of wood decay rate, which greatly differed among tree species, and maintaining high tree species diversity will result in high structural deadwood diversity in terms of decay rate and decay stage.

TL;DR: Results of this study indicate that co-evolutionary patterns between oribatid mites and their associated fungi might be rare or even missing in most cases, since the authors only detected ubiquitous taxa attached to the mites.

TL;DR: Most endophytes proved to be ubiquitous within the canopy of the investigation site, but habitat preferences in terms of different tree species, different light regimes and season (sampling times) were obvious for some abundantendophytes.

TL;DR: In the understorey, infection density and species richness were higher than in the crowns of mature trees throughout the whole vegetation period, and within tree crowns, sun-exposed leaves of the top canopy exhibited the lowest infection rates.

TL;DR: It is found that tree species identity was the most significant factor, corresponding to (P < 0.001) and explaining 10% (representing 48% of the explainable variance) of the overall WIF community composition and Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) richness.