Ecology of Alpine Macrofungi - Combining Historical with Recent Data

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Ivano Brunner, Beat Frey, Martin Hartmann, Stephan Zimmermann, Frank Graf, Laura M. Suz, Tuula Niskanen, Martin I. Bidartondo, Beatrice Senn-Irlet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
• Subjects: Dryas octopetala; fungal communities; ectomycorrhiza; Salix herbacea; Salix reticulata; Salix retusa; Microbiology; QR1-502; Jules
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066; https://doaj.org/article/792efc46eb2f43fcb94b0bd41cfe6dfc

Historical datasets of living communities are important because they can be used to document creeping shifts in species compositions. Such a historical data set exists for alpine fungi. From 1941 to 1953, the Swiss geologist Jules Favre visited yearly the region of the Swiss National Park and record...