Eur. J. Entomol. 104 (2): 225-233, 2007 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2007.035

The role of fungal taxa and developmental stage of mushrooms in determining the composition of the mycophagous insect community in a Japanese forest

Satoshi YAMASHITA*, Naoki HIJII
Laboratory of Forest Protection, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

We hypothesize that differences in fungal taxonomic groups may exert a direct influence on the composition of mycophagous insect communities, and that the relative importance of taxonomy compared to other fungal traits may change as the mushrooms decay. We conducted a 3-year field survey and analyzed the species composition of mycophagous insect communities using partial canonical correspondence analysis (partial CCA). We collected 2457 mushrooms belonging to 27 genera, and 4616 insects belonging to 16 families emerged from 439 of the mushrooms. For the whole insect community, fungal genera explained 10-19% of the total variance in the family composition of the insect communities of mushrooms at different developmental stages. Only the fungal genus Collybia significantly affected the community composition almost irrespective of developmental stage. In the drosophilid community, which consisted of 844 individuals from 9 species, fungal genera explained 19-34% of the total variance. Some fungal genera, such as Amanita and Collybia, affected the drosophilid community, but not at all developmental stages. The number of fungal genera that significantly affected the insect community composition did not differ among fungal stages both in the whole insect community and in the drosophilid community. Thus, our former hypothesis was supported by the present analysis, whereas the latter was not. However, the percentages of variance explained by fungal genera were rather small. This suggests that the importance of fungal genera is likely to be less significant than that of other selection pressures in determining the species composition of mycophagous insect communities.

Keywords: Chemical components, community structure, microbes, mushrooms, mycophagous insects

Received: April 11, 2006; Revised: December 4, 2006; Accepted: December 4, 2006; Published: April 25, 2007  Show citation

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YAMASHITA, S., & HIJII, N. (2007). The role of fungal taxa and developmental stage of mushrooms in determining the composition of the mycophagous insect community in a Japanese forest. EJE, 104(2), 225-233. doi: 10.14411/eje.2007.035
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