Data from: Wood-inhabiting fungi with tight associations with other species have declined as a response to forest management

Research on mutualistic and antagonistic networks, such as
plant–pollinator and host–parasite networks, has shown that species
interactions can influence and be influenced by the responses of species
to environmental perturbations. Here we examine whether results obtained
for directly observable networks generalize to more complex networks in
which species interactions cannot be observed directly. As a case study,
we consider data on the occurrences of 98 wood-inhabiting fungal species
in managed and natural forests. We specifically ask if and how much the
positions of wood-inhabiting fungal species within the interaction
networks influence their responses to forest management. For this, we
utilize a joint species distribution model that partitions variation in
species occurrences among environmental (i.e. resource availability) and
biotic (i.e. species-to-species associations) predictors. Our results
indicate that in addition to the direct loss of resource-specialised
species, forest management has indirect effects mediated through
interactive associations. In particular, species with strong associative
links to other species are especially sensitive to forest management.