Productivity of edible fungi in taiga communities

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Luginina, E A, Egoshina, T L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: taiga
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/548/8/082004; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/548/8/082004/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/548/8/082004

Abstract The authors studied edible macrofungi in natural forest communities of middle taiga in Kirov region, Russia. Out of more than 400 macrofungi species known within the area, 5 are rare and being protected, over 20 are used as medicinal, 149 species are considered edible, of which 46 are legally allowed for collection. Local population mostly collects 10-15 species. The largest species variety of economically important macrofungi is found in cowberry and maianthemum-cowberry forest types in which Boletus edulis, B. piniphilus, Leccinum scabrum, L. aurantiacum, L. versipelle, Suillus variegates, Xerocomus subtomentosus, Lactarius rufus, Cantharellus cibarius dominate. Maximum long-term average annual productivity of fruit bodies is marked in young pine lichen forests (127.1 kg/ha), minimum - in mature and overmature bilberry and maianthemum-bilberry spruce forests (24.0 kg/ha). In years of good yield basic dominating species of edible fungi in middle taiga are Suillus granulatus and S. luteus (productivity up to 28-57 kg/ha), Cantharellus cibarius (11-17 kg/ha) and red-cap bolete (up to 21 kg/ha).