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Truffles and climate change
Author(s) -
Büntgen Ulf,
Tegel Willy,
Egli Simon,
Stobbe Ulrich,
Sproll Ludger,
Stenseth Nils C
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
frontiers in ecology and the environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.918
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1540-9309
pISSN - 1540-9295
DOI - 10.1890/11.wb.004
Subject(s) - snow , library science , geography , forestry , computer science , meteorology
www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America Figure 1. (a) Distribution of Périgord black truffle (yellow) and Piedmont white truffle (blue), and the traditional range of Burgundy summer truffle (red). The star indicates the find location in Germany, with a trained truffle dog (b). Full (c) and cross-section (d) images of the specimen, showing the gleba (spore-bearing tissue). (e) Microscopic amplification of truffle peridium (surface) reveals horizontal black/gray layers that, to our knowledge, have never been reported before, and may represent growth increments. (f) Temperature anomalies of 2010 with respect to 1901–2000, as obtained from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (www.giss.nasa.gov/). JJA = June–August. Truffles and climate change