Early chemical changes during wood decomposition are controlled by fungal communities inhabiting stems at treefall in a tropical dry forest

Agriculture & Biology

• wood degradation 86%
• tropical dry forests 80%
• fungal communities 71%
• plant pathogenic fungi 50%
• hemicellulose 43%
• stems 39%
• wood properties 37%
• dead wood 37%
• xylan 32%
• degradation 28%
• saprotrophs 23%
• hurricanes 21%
• dry forests 19%
• fungi 18%
• forest litter 17%
• biogeochemical cycles 17%
• glucans 16%
• ecosystems 11%
• cellulose 10%
• carbon 10%
• methodology 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• treefall 100%
• dry forest 75%
• tropical forest 61%
• stem 55%
• decomposition 44%
• fungus 38%
• tropical ecosystem 11%
• forest floor 10%
• guild 10%
• nutrient cycling 9%
• loss 9%
• hurricane 8%
• cellulose 8%
• relative abundance 8%
• rate 5%
• carbon 5%
• method 1%