Figure 1.

(a) Dry mass loss of poplar leaf discs and associated (b) fungal biomass and (c) sporulation rates, incubated in microcosms with mono- or multicultures of two strains (R, reference; S, saline) of three aquatic hyphomycete species—Heliscus lugdunensis (HELU), Tetracladium marchalianum (TEMA) and Flagellospora curta (FLCU). All treatments were exposed to a reference (white bars) and a salted (with 6 g l⁻¹ NaCl; grey bars) solution for 21 days (mean ± s.e.; n = 3).