Soil fungi perform many vital functions in forest ecosystems, including decomposition, mineralisation and plant fungal mutualism. Through these processes, soil fungi play important roles in carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. Despite their importance in forest soils, there is currently little information regarding the influence of environmental disturbances on soil fungal communities in forest ecosystems. Work described in this thesis thus investigated the effects of forest management practices (i.e. forest conversion and prescribed burning for forest regeneration) and climate change on soil fungal communities.
| Date of Award | 2010 |
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| Original language | English |
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- soil fungi
- fungal communities
- mycorrhizal fungi
- forest management
- forest soils
- soil microbiology
- prescribed burning
- climatic changes
- forest conversion
- Australia
The impacts of forest management practices and climate change on soil fungal communities
Curlevski, N. J. (Author). 2010
Western Sydney University thesis: Doctoral thesis