{"id":682,"date":"2025-06-05T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/el-clima-i-la-topografia-determinants-per-a-la-riquesa-de-bolets-als-boscos-mediterranis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:02:39","slug":"climate-and-topography-key-factors-for-mushroom-richness-in-mediterranean-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/climate-and-topography-key-factors-for-mushroom-richness-in-mediterranean-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate and topography, key factors for mushroom richness in Mediterranean forests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n <li><strong><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW190956026 BCX0\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW169610662 BCX0\">A study led by Agrotecnio, the University of Lleida, and the CTFC confirms that mushroom production and spore dispersal in black pine forests depend more on climate and topography than on forest management.<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n\n<span class=\"TextRun SCXW7664635 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7664635 BCX0\">A scientific team from Agrotecnio \u2013 University of Lleida and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) delves into the reproductive behavior of wild fungi in a <\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW7664635 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0301479725018730?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7664635 BCX0\">recent study<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW7664635 BCX0\">that shows that environmental factors such as rainfall, temperature, or altitude play a much more decisive role in the diversity and composition of fungal communities than forest management techniques such as selective logging or thinning.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe study was carried out in the Meranges area (Girona), in a subalpine black pine forest. During the autumn of 2021, 18 plots\u2014both with and without forest thinning\u2014were monitored, with both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/carpophore#English\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carpophores<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spores<\/a> collected weekly. This dual approach allowed the researchers to analyze fungal communities from the perspective of mushroom production and their reproductive capacity through spores.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nIn these forests of Meranges, numerous edible fungi that fruit abundantly have been found, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tricholoma_portentosum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Tricholoma portentosum<\/i><\/a>, a species common at higher elevations, and other highly prized culinary species like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boletus_edulis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Boletus edulis<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lactarius_deliciosus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Lactarius deliciosus<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cantharellus_cibarius\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Cantharellus cibarius<\/i><\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macrolepiota_procera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Macrolepiota procera<\/i><\/a>. \n\nThe results of the study show that weather conditions explain up to 15% of the variability in the spore composition of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ectomicorriza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ectomycorrhizal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sapr%C3%B2fit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saprotrophic<\/a> fungi, while the influence of climate on carpophores is much lower (2.6% and 0.6%, respectively). Topography, especially altitude and slope, also has a notable impact on saprotrophic species, but virtually none on ectomycorrhizal ones.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAccording to Agrotecnio &#8211; UdL researcher Giada Centenaro, one of the authors of the study, \u201cthe intensity of forest thinning had no significant effect on either spore diversity or fungal diversity, at least in the short term, and contrary to our initial expectations. This suggests that forest management policies should take local environmental factors more into account in order to promote fungal biodiversity,\u201d she adds.\u00a0\n\n\nResearcher \u00c1ngel Ponce, from the CTFC, explains that \u201cone of the most notable findings is the temporal correlation between carpophore production and spore dispersal, with a one-week lag in ectomycorrhizal species. This indicates that fungi release their spores shortly after appearing, which opens the door to using spore traps as a complementary tool to study fungal dynamics without the need for constant visual sampling.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe research has been led by Giada Centenaro and \u00c1ngel Ponce, with the support of Josu G. Alday, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Bonet, Sergio de-Miguel, Juan Mart\u00ednez de Arag\u00f3n, and Svetlana Dashevskaya, researchers from Agrotecnio, the CTFC, and the University of Lleida.\u00a0\n\nThis study has been developed within the framework of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversa.eu\/2023\/04\/19\/microeco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MicroEco<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctfc.cat\/ca\/nou-projecte-funforchange-els-fongs-forestals-davant-el-canvi-global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FUNFORCHANGE<\/a> projects, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain, the State Research Agency, and the European Union.\u00a0\u00a0\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19257\" src=\"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-03-20-at-11.56.22-338x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19254\" src=\"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/photo1637683309-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19251\" src=\"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/photo1637683314-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19248\" src=\"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-14-at-16.14.06-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by Agrotecnio, the University of Lleida, and the CTFC confirms that mushroom production and spore dispersal in black pine forests depend more on climate and topography than on forest management.\u00a0 A scientific team from Agrotecnio \u2013 University of Lleida and the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) delves into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrotecnio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}