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@article{Brunner:2017:10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066,
author = {Brunner, I and Frey, B and Hartmann, M and Zimmermann, S and Graf, F and Suz, LM and Niskanen, T and Bidartondo, MI and Senn-Irlet, B},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066},
journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
title = {Ecology of Alpine Macrofungi - Combining Historical with Recent Data},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066},
volume = {8},
year = {2017}
}

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AB  - Historical datasets of living communities are important because they can be used todocument creeping shifts in species compositions. Such a historical data set exists foralpine fungi. From 1941 to 1953, the Swiss geologist Jules Favre visited yearly the regionof the Swiss National Park and recorded the occurring fruiting bodies of fungi >1 mm(so-called “macrofungi”) in the alpine zone. Favre can be regarded as one of the pioneersof alpine fungal ecology not least because he noted location, elevation, geology, andassociated plants during his numerous excursions. However, some relevant informationis only available in his unpublished field-book. Overall, Favre listed 204 fungal species in26 sampling sites, with 46 species being previously unknown. The analysis of his datarevealed that the macrofungi recorded belong to two major ecological groups, either theyare symbiotrophs and live in ectomycorrhizal associations with alpine plant hosts, or theyare saprotrophs and decompose plant litter and soil organic matter. The most frequentfungi were members of Inocybe and Cortinarius, which form ectomycorrhizas with Dryasoctopetala or the dwarf alpine Salix species. The scope of the present study was tocombine Favre’s historical dataset with more recent data, either with the “SwissFungi”database or with data from major studies of the French and German Alps, and with thedata from novel high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques of soils from the SwissAlps. Results of the latter application revealed, that problems associated with these newtechniques are manifold and species determination remains often unclear. At this point,the fungal taxa collected by Favre and deposited as exsiccata at the “Conservatoire etJardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève” could be used as a reference sequence datasetfor alpine fungal studies. In conclusion, it can be postulated that new improved databasesare urgently necessary for the near future, partic
AU  - Brunner,I
AU  - Frey,B
AU  - Hartmann,M
AU  - Zimmermann,S
AU  - Graf,F
AU  - Suz,LM
AU  - Niskanen,T
AU  - Bidartondo,MI
AU  - Senn-Irlet,B
DO  - 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 1664-302X
TI  - Ecology of Alpine Macrofungi - Combining Historical with Recent Data
T2  - Frontiers in Microbiology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02066
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/55815
VL  - 8
ER  -

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