Figure 2. Observed and estimated (Chao1 and ACE) fungal richness across the three study regions, Schwäbische Alb (A), Hainich-Dün (H) and Schorfheide Chorin (S) presented using box plots for: (a) the fungal kingdom, (b) the phylum Basidiomycota, (c) the subphylum Agaricomycotina, (d) the phylum Ascomycota and (e) the subphylum Pezizomycotina.

Different letters above bars indicate significant differences between the sites (p≤0.05) based on a Tukey post hoc pairwise comparison.