Spatial and temporal aspects of macrofungal community structure

Abstract

The thesis contains an analysis of spatial and temporal aspects of macrofungal fruiting. In total, the thesis contains 8 chapters with 5 experimental chapters. These chapters involved studies of i) fungal phenology (Chapter 3), ii) fungal-host associations (Chapter 4), iii) the relationship between fungi and climatic variables (Chapter 5), iv) seasonal dynamics of fungal interactions (Chapter 6) and v} fungal species co-occurrence patterns (Chapter 7).