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To the micro-organisms colonising it, wood may be regarded as a series of conveniently orientated holes surrounded by food. The colonisation sequence, as Butcher1 has pointed out, is a purely ecological one. The wood, being non-living material, makes no pathological response to the invading organisms. It can only be changed by some action of the organism and this may take one or several of a number of activities.
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Levy, J.F. (1975). Colonisation of Wood by Fungi. In: Liese, W. (eds) Biological Transformation of Wood by Microorganisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85778-2_2
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