Breaking new ground at the interface of dendroecology and mycology.
Büntgen USwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland; Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Brno, Czech Republic. Electronic address: buentgen@wsl.ch.
Egli SSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
English
New insight on the mycorrhizal fungus-host association, expected to emerge from combining dendrochronology, wood anatomy and mycology, may help to understanding better and disentangle biotic, abiotic, and combined edaphic factors of the mutualistic relation between ectomycorrhizal fungi and their perennial partners.