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MITICFOR
Characterizing the functional role and diversity of soil fungi to enhance the climate change mitigation capability of forests
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MITICFOR will address how land-use legacy effects on ECM community composition and structure impact on the physiological resistance of their hosts to drought and on the soil carbon storage capacity and hence climate change mitigation potential.
The general objective is to characterize the functional diversity of natural-borne soil fungi to enhance forest climate change mitigation. Specific objectives (SO) are:
- SO1. To assess the impact of land-use change on the diversity of the soil ECM fungal community under contrasting land-use change scenarios.
- SO2. To quantify the climate change mitigation potential of expanding and mature forests in relation to their soil physicochemical properties and ECM communities.
- SO3. To identify resistant and resilient soil fungal communities that contribute to maintain the functionality of the vegetation under increasing drought.
