Summary of community characteristics (all sites)							
remarks:	data from Taylor (2000); method Taylor et al (2000)						
	Cummunity characteristics of the ectomycorrhizal communities in 4 spruce and 4 beech forests along north-south transects in Europe.						
	Spruce: Åheden - Northern Sweden; Klosterhede - Western Jutland Denmark; Waldstein - Fichtelgebirge Germany; Aubure - Vosges Mountains NE France.						
	Beech: Gribskov – N. Sealand Denmark;  Schacht – Fichtelgebirge Germany; Aubure - Voges Mountains NE France; Collelongo - Appenines Italy.						
	SWD Index – Shannon-Wiener diversity Index (Krebs 1989)						
	Evenness – Berger-Parker index of community evenness (Magurran 1988)						


							
							
Site	Total no. 	Level of  colonisation	Total no.	Mean no.	SWD Index	Evenness	
	of tips sampled		of morphotypes	of morphotypes per sample			
		[%]		mean (se)			
Spruce							
Åheden	1311	99.4	19	6.0 (0.4)	3.55	0.84	
Klosterhede	1873	90.6	19	5.2  (0.8)	3.34	0.838	
Waldstein	1114	99.2	14	2.8  (0.6)	2.57	0.509	
Aubure	2610	98.8	18	4.6  (0.7)	3.29	0.759	
							
Beech							
Gribskov	2123	99.2	14	4.1  (0.4)	2.83	0.697	
Schacht	2141	100	22	4.3 (0.4)	3.93	0.87	
Aubure	698	99.9	11	2.8  (0.6)	2.34	0.561	
Collelongo	3209	99.8	19	3.8 (0.6)	3.28	0.718	
							
							
							
