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Title: | Fire-related changes in biomass of hypogeous sporocarps at foraging points used by a tropical mycophagous marsupial | Contributor(s): | Vernes, Karl Adriaan (author) ; Johnson, Christopher N (author); Castellano, Michael A (author) | Publication Date: | 2004 | DOI: | 10.1017/S0953756204000048 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2983 | Abstract: | Changes in pre- and post-fire biomass of hypogeous fungal sporocarps remaining at locations where an endangered mycophagous marsupial, the northern bettong ('Bettongia tropica'), had foraged, were assessed in fire-prone sclerophyll forest in northeastern Australia. Low to medium intensity experimental fires were set during the late dry season in 1995 and 1996 and post-foraging biomass of sporocarps (expressed as biomass of sporocarps remaining at recent 'B. tropica' diggings) was measured at unburnt and burnt sites at approximately six-week intervals for a period of 14 months. Post-foraging biomass was significantly higher at burnt sites immediately following fire compared with control sites, solely due to increased biomass of hypogeous species belonging to the family 'Mesophelliaceae'. Several months after fire, post-foraging biomass was significantly higher on unburnt sites compared with very low biomass on burnt sites. Twelve months after fire, the biomass on burnt and unburnt sites was not significantly different, having returned to biomass observed pre-fire. All evidence points toward mesophellioid fungi being greatly more available to bettongs on recently burnt ground, but fire may make several other sporocarp taxa considerably less available several months following fire. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Mycological Research, 108(12), p. 1438-1446 | Publisher: | Elsevier Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1469-8102 0953-7562 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060208 Terrestrial Ecology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960806 Forest and Woodlands Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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