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Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest

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Figure 1: Truffle yield and climate change.

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We thank I.R. Hall and F. Martínez Peña for discussions. Supported by the WSL-internal DITREC project, the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation, and the Czech project 'Building up a multidisciplinary scientific team focused on drought' (No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0248).

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U.B. designed the study with input from W.T., U.S., L.S. and S.E. Analyses were performed by U.B. with support of J.J.C. and E.M.F. All authors contributed to discussion, interpretation and writing.

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Büntgen, U., Egli, S., Camarero, J. et al. Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest. Nature Clim Change 2, 827–829 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1733

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