Sclerotia as indicators of mid-Holocene tree-limit altitude, Colorado Front Range, USA

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Author: Benedict, James B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2011
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Rowe; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683610395078; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683610395078; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683610395078

Studies in the Front Range of north-central Colorado have shown that sclerotia of Cenococcum geophilum, a common ectomycorrhizal fungus, are larger beneath spruce-fir-forest and tree-island vegetation than beneath tundra grasses and herbs. The presence, in alpine-tundra soils, of C. geophilum sclero...