• First, you have to identify the fungi attacking wood in your area of living by DNA-based, multiplex PCR method that can detect and identify many important wood rot fungi
• Second, you could collect the fungi specimen and confirm the identification morphologically
• Thirdly, you could begin to look for preservatives to avoid wood decay

Dear Partha

An inventory of wood decay fungi is a long term project. if you are going to base your data on fruiting bodies of the mushrooms you requiere at least a lot of field work and support by expert taxonomies to identify your collections. Step by step methods for fungi inventories can be found in:

Rossman, A. Y. (1998). Protocols for an all taxa biodiversity inventory of fungi in a Costa Rican conservation area. Parkway Publishers, Inc..

You also can do an inventory based on DNA sequences. For this you need much less fiend work but a lot of expertise in molecular biology and bioinformatics.

The best alternative would be to joint both methods:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.14509/full

Dear Roberto, very nice your comment is. Thanks a lot.

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Hi Partha

Some useful references on attachment 1

http://www.timesuptermite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DryRot-WoodDecayFungi.pdf

' thank you. 

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https://www.pestproducts.com/decayfungi.htm

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http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/wood-decay-fungi.shtml

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https://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/yard-garden/trees-shrubs/wood-decay/

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https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/herbarium-and-resources/national-herbarium-of-victoria/fungi-collections/wood-decay-fungi

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https://www.greening.gov.hk/filemanager/content/pdf/tree_care/Note_on_Common_Wood_Decay_Fungi_on_Urban_Trees_of_HK(May2015)_e.pdf

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https://www.treerot.com/

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http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.py.29.090191.002121

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https://thealmonddoctor.com/2013/04/16/tree-loss-from-wood-decay-fungi/

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https://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/11/fiw179

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https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/2975568/Threesomes-destabilise-certain-relationships

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https://www.abis.com.au/fungal-decay

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https://www.emlab.com/s/sampling/env-report-01-2009.html

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https://aem.asm.org/content/66/11/4725.full

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https://biotechnologyforbiofuels.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13068-016-0525-y

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https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/132422

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https://www.ausinspect.com.au/wood-decay.htm

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https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3642573029

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https://www.xylazel.com/en/glossary/wood-decay-fungi

Thank you Dr. Laith Al-Ani.

Regards

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https://www.esf.edu/nekda/documents/WoodDecay-Anagnostsmallversion_000.pdf

You are welcome