Mushroom productivity trends in relation to tree growth and climate across different European forest biomes

0508781 - ÚVGZ 2020 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Collado, E. - Bonet, J. A. - Camarero, J. J. - Egli, S. - Peter, M. - Salo, K. - Martinez-Pena, F. - Ohenoja, E. - Martin-Pinto, P. - Primicia, I. - Büntgen, Ulf - Kurttila, M. - Oria de Rueda, J. A. - Martinez de Aragon, J. - Miina, J. - de-Miguel, S.
Mushroom productivity trends in relation to tree growth and climate across different European forest biomes.
Science of the Total Environment. Roč. 689, NOV 1 2019 (2019), s. 602-615. ISSN 0048-9697. E-ISSN 1879-1026
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) EF16_019/0000797
Research Infrastructure: CzeCOS II - 90061
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : pinus-pinaster forests * community structure * ectomycorrhizal fungi * saprotrophic fungi * species richness * diversity * macrofungi * management * dynamics * patterns * Fungi * Long-term data * Mixed models * Functional guilds * Dendroecology * Biomes
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Impact factor: 6.551, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Open access with time embargo
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Although it is logical to think that mycorrhizal mushroom production should be somehow related to the growth of the trees from which the fungi obtain carbohydrates, little is known about how mushroom yield patterns are related to tree performance. In this study, we delved into the understanding of the relationships between aboveground fungal productivity, tree radial growth patterns and climatic conditions across three latitudinally different bioclimatic regions encompassing Mediterranean, temperate and boreal forest ecosystems in Europe. For this purpose, we used a large assemblage of long-term data of weekly or biweekly mushroom yield monitoring in Spain, Switzerland and Finland. We analysed the relationships between annual mushroom yield (considering both biomass and number of sporocarps per unit area), tree ring features (tree ring, earlywood and latewood widths), and meteorological conditions (i.e. precipitation and temperature of summer and autumn) from different study sites and forest ecosystems, using both standard and partial correlations. Moreover, we fitted predictive models to estimate mushroom yield from mycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal guilds based on climatic and dendrochronological variables. Significant synchronies between mushroom yield and climatic and dendrochronological variables were mostly found in drier Mediterranean sites, while few or no significant correlations were found in the boreal and temperate regions. We observed positive correlations between latewood growth and mycorrhizal mushroom biomass only in some Mediterranean sites, this relationship being mainly mediated by summer and autumn precipitation. Under more water-limited conditions, both the seasonal wood production and the mushroom yield are more sensitive to precipitation events, resulting in higher synchrony between both variables. This comparative study across diverse European forest biomes and types provides new insights into the relationship between mushroom productivity, tree growth and weather conditions. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0299599