“…As with tree species, fungal species and fungal traits vary substantially across climate and latitudinal gradients, with brown-rot fungi proportionally more abundant in cold, dry regions and white-rot fungi more abundant in moist, warm regions (Stokland et al, 2012). Temperate termite species often show a preference for wood colonised by brown-rot fungi (Lenz et al, 1980(Lenz et al, , 1991Ruyooka & Edwards, 1980;Getty & Haverty, 1998;Suarez & Thorne, 2000), and there is some evidence that C. formosanus is less able to consume fungal-colonised wood than R. flavipes (Lenz et al, 1991), perhaps facilitating a broader (Khan, 1980), temperature (Lenz et al, 1983), wood type (Lenz et al, 1983;Ripa et al, 2002), fungal activity (Lenz et al, 1991), and wood quantity (Cornelius & Osbrink, 2001), thus complicating efforts to extrapolate laboratory estimates to the ecosystem level (Lenz et al, 1983). Methane production rates vary drastically between species and depend predominantly upon the assay temperature (Fraser et al, 1986).…”