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Historical and future spatially-explicit climate change impacts on mycorrhizal and saprotrophic macrofungal productivity in Mediterranean pine forests
(Elsevier, 2022)Fungi are responsible for many of the processes that occur in natural ecosystems and largely determine forest ecosystem dynamics, such as the ability of trees to access limiting nutrients and sequester carbon. Understanding ... -
Responses in soil carbon and nitrogen fractionation after prescribed burning in the Montseny biosphere reserve (NE Iberian Peninsula)
(MDPI, 2022)Prescribed fire is one of the most widely-used management tools to recover encroached rangelands. Fire has been reported to cause changes in the soil physical and chemical properties. However, the legacy effects of former ... -
Uncertainty of biomass stocks in Spanish forests: a comprehensive comparison of allometric equations
(Springer, 2022)Biomass and carbon content are essential indicators for monitoring forest ecosystems and their role in climate action, but their estimation is not straightforward. A typical approach to solve these limitations has been the ... -
Variations in biomass of fungal guilds are primarily driven by factors related to soil conditions in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster forests
(Springer, 2022)Soil fungi are vital for regulating ecosystem carbon balance and productivity, by driving processes related to soil carbon and nutrient cycling. The rate and capacity of fungi-mediated processes are linked to fungal biomass ... -
Weather as main driver for masting and stem growth variation in stone pine supports compatible timber and nut co-production
(Elsevier, 2021-01-01)Trade-offs between life-history traits are common in plants, and those involving growth and reproduction may be evident during mast years. The nutlike seeds of the stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) stand out among the most ... -
Are global forests performing in sync? The need to account for spatiotemporal biases in tree-ring records
(Wiley, 2021-08-04)Populations whose dynamics are driven by correlated environmental stochasticity face increased risk of extinc-tion. Forests in particular are being pushed to their physi-ological limits under global change; hence, the ... -
Oak Competition Dominates Interspecific Interactions in Growth and Water-Use Efficiency in a Mixed Pine-Oak Mediterranean Forest
(MDPI, 2021-08-16)In the Mediterranean, mixed forests of Aleppo pine and holm oak are widespread. Generally considered a transition stage in the succession towards climax oak communities, niche segregation may also contribute to the prevalence ... -
Drivers of nocturnal stomatal conductance in C3 and C4 plants
(Elsevier, 2022)Nocturnal water losses were for long considered negligible, but it is now known that incomplete stomatal closure during the night leads to significant water losses at leaf, plant and ecosystem scales. However, only daytime ... -
Response of stream ecosystem structure to heavy metal pollution: context-dependency of top-down control by fish
(Springer, 2022)The stress-gradient hypothesis predicts that biotic interactions within food webs are context dependent, since environmental stressors can attenuate consumer-prey interactions. Yet, how heavy metal pollution influences the ... -
Soil fungal community and mating type development of Tuber melanosporum in a 20-year chronosequence of black truffle plantations
(Elsevier, 2022)Black truffle plantations are established on the basis that Tuber melanosporum Vittad. spreads from artificially inoculated trees. Although truffle cultivation has progressed tremendously over the past 30 years, the ... -
The influence of forest surroundings on the soil fungal community of black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) plantations
(Elsevier, 2020)Black truffles are a highly valued non-wood forest product. The success of truffle plantations is arousing the interest to establish orchards within forest settings. One main concern is that the forest may act as a source ... -
Truffle Market Evolution: An Application of the Delphi Method
(MDPI, 2021)Background: The objective of this study was to analyze the current situation of the truffle sector in the main producing countries of the Mediterranean area. Additionally, we identified the challenges for the future and ... -
Variation in fungal community in grapevine (vitis vinifera) nursery stock depends on nursery, variety and rootstock
(MPDI, 2022)Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs) are caused by cryptic complexes of fungal pathogens andhave become a growing problem for new grapevine (Vitis vinifera) plantations. We studied the roleof the nursery, variety, and rootstock ... -
Risk and reward of the global truffle sector under predicted climate change
(IOP Science, 2022)Climate change has been described as the main threat for the cultivation and growth of truffles, but hydroclimate variability and model uncertainty challenge regional projections and adaptation strategies of the emerging ... -
Evaluation of chestnut susceptibility to cryphonectria parasitica: screening under controlled conditions
(MDPI, 2021)Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) M.E. Barr (Sordariomycetes, Valsaceae) is the causal agent of chestnut blight. This disease is a major concern for chestnut cultivation in Europe. The fungus colonizes vascular tissues ... -
Fostering carbon credits to finance wildfire risk reduction forest management in Mediterranean landscapes
(MPDI, 2021)Despite the need for preserving the carbon pools in fire-prone southern European landscapes, emission reductions from wildfire risk mitigation are still poorly understood. In this study, we estimated expected carbon emissions ... -
Positive effects of legumes on soil organic carbon stocks disappear at high legume proportions across natural grasslands in the pyrenees
(Springer Verlag, 2021-09)Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon pool, making it crucial for climate change mitigation. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is suggested to depend on biodiversity components, but much evidence comes from diversity-function ... -
Integrating geospatial wildfire models to delineate landscape management zones and inform decision-making in Mediterranean areas
(Elsevier, 2022-03)Despite the abundant firefighting resources deployed to reinforce the fire exclusion policy, extreme events continue to cause substantial losses in Mediterranean regions. These catastrophic wildfires question the merely-reactive ... -
Forest expansion in mountain protected areas: trends and consequences for the landscape
(Elsevier, 2021)Mountain regions in Western Europe have gone through a massive rural–urban migration and the collapse of their traditional socioeconomic system. As a result, forest has occupied many old pastures and croplands. In protected ... -
Impact of forest thinning on aboveground macrofungal community composition and diversity in Mediterranean pine stands
(Elsevier, 2021)Fungal communities are especially relevant in Mediterranean regions, a ‘hotspot’ of fungal diversity, and where the value of edible commercial sporocarps may be much higher than the income from timber products. Assessing ...