Ecology of Alpine Macrofungi - Combining Historical with Recent Data

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Brunner, I, Frey, B, Hartmann, M, Zimmermann, S, Graf, F, Suz, LM, Niskanen, T, Bidartondo, MI, Senn-Irlet, B
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2017
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Microbiology; Dryas octopetala; fungal communities; ectomycorrhiza; Salix herbacea; Salix reticulata; Salix retusa; Salix serpyiiifoiia; Swiss National Park; SUCCESSIONAL GLACIER FOREFRONT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; DRYAS-OCTOPETALA; PLANT DIVERSITY; FUNGI; SOIL; MYCORRHIZAL; COMMUNITIES; EUROPE; AGARICALES; Salix serpyllifolia; Jules
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55815; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066

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...