• Beetles provide directed dispersal of viable spores of a keystone wood decay fungus 

      Lunde, Lisa Fagerli; Boddy, Lynne; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Jacobsen, Rannveig Margrete; Kauserud, Håvard; Birkemoe, Tone (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Wood decay fungi are considered to be dispersed by wind, but dispersal by animals may also be important, and more so in managed forests where dead wood is scarce. We investigated whether beetles could disperse spores of ...