Mushroom biomass and diversity are driven by different spatio-temporal scales along Mediterranean elevation gradients.

ABSTRACT: Mushrooms are important non-wood-forest-products in many Mediterranean ecosystems, being highly vulnerable to climate change. However, the ecological scales of variation of mushroom productivity and diversity, and climate dependence has been usually overlooked due to a lack of available data. We determined the spatio-temporal variability of epigeous sporocarps and the climatic factors driving their fruiting to plan future sustainable management of wild mushrooms production. We collected fruiting bodies in Pinus sylvestris stands along an elevation gradient for 8 consecutive years. Overall, sporocarp biomass was mainly dependent on inter-annual variations, whereas richness was more spatial-scale dependent. Elevation was not significant, but there were clear elevational differences in biomas

SUBMITTER: Alday JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5382911 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature