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This work was supported by the bilateral Project funded by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL & the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC): BLACK-DYNAMite-DYNAMics and competition of BLACK Perigord and Burgundy truffles (T. melanosporum and T. aestivum) under climate change This research was also supported by the European Union via INTACT, Project number 101007623, entitled " Innovation in truffle cultivation, preservation, processing and wild truffle resources management " under " Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014 - 2020). " Y.P. thanks the University of Lleida for her contract (UdL-Impuls). J.G.A. was supported by the Ramon y Cajal fellowship (RYC-2016-20528)

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May 31, 2024
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Habitat is more important than climate for structuring soil fungal communities associated in truffle sites

Publicated to:Fungal Biology. 128 (2): 1724-1734 - 2024-03-13 128(2), DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2024.02.006

Authors: Pinuela, Yasmin; Alday, Josu G; Oliach, Daniel; Castano, Carles; Buntgen, Ulf; Egli, Simon; Pena, Fernando Martinez; Dashevskaya, Svetlana; Colinas, Carlos; Peter, Martina; Bonet, Jose Antonio

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Agrifood Res & Technol Ctr Aragon CITA, Montanana 930, E-50059 Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Czech Globe Res Inst CAS, Brno, Czech Republic - Author
European Mycol Inst EGTC EMI, E-42003 Soria, Spain - Author
Forest Sci & Technol Ctr Catalonia CTFC, Crta St Llorenc Morunys Km 2, Solsona 25280, Spain - Author
Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2). Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author
Joint Res Unit CTFC AGROTECNIO CERCA, Av Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, Lleida 25198, Spain - Author
Masaryk Univ Brno, Brno, Czech Republic - Author
Sistemas Agrícolas, Forestales y Medio Ambiente. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author
Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Dept Forest Mycol & Plant Pathol, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden - Author
Swiss Fed Res Inst WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland - Author
Univ Cambridge, Dept Geog, Cambridge, England - Author
Univ Lleida, Dept Agr & Forest Sci & Engn, Lleida 25198, Spain - Author
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Abstract

The ectomycorrhizal fungi Tuber melanosporum Vittad. and Tuber aestivum Vittad. produce highly valuable truffles, but little is known about the soil fungal communities associated with these truffle species in places where they co-occur. Here, we compared soil fungal communities present in wild and planted truffle sites, in which T. melanosporum and T. aestivum coexist, in Mediterranean and temperate regions over three sampling seasons spanning from 2018 to 2019. We showed that soil fungal community composition and ectomycorrhizal species composition are driven by habitat type rather than climate regions. Also, we observed the influence of soil pH, organic matter content and C:N ratio structuring total and ectomycorrhizal fungal assemblages. Soil fungal communities in wild sites revealed more compositional variability than those of plantations. Greater soil fungal diversity was found in temperate compared to Mediterranean sites when considering all fungal guilds. Ectomycorrhizal diversity was significantly higher in wild sites compared to plantations. Greater mould abundance at wild sites than those on plantation was observed while tree species and seasonal effects were not significant predictors in fungal community structure. Our results suggested a strong influence of both ecosystem age and management on the fungal taxa composition in truffle habitats.

Keywords

Black truffleBurgundyCultivationDiversityEctomycorrhizal communitiesForest soilsFungal diversityIdentificationOrcharSeasonal dynamicsSoil fungT. aestivumT. melanosporumTruffle ecologyTruffle plantationTuber-melanosporum

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Fungal Biology due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Plant Science.

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Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-11:

  • Scopus: 2

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From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-11:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 14.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 18 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 7.3.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 11 (Altmetric).

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This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Czech Republic; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom.