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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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  1. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zucherstrasse 111, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland

    Ulf Büntgen & Simon Egli

  2. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Zähringerstrasse 25, Bern, 3012, Switzerland

    Ulf Büntgen

  3. Global Change Research Centre AS CR, v.v.i., Bělidla 986/4a, Brno, 60300, Czech Republic

    Ulf Büntgen

  4. ARAID-Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología CSIC, Avenida Montañana 1005, Zaragoza, 50080, Spain

    J. Julio Camarero

  5. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland

    Erich M. Fischer

  6. Institute of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, University of Freiburg, Bertoldsstraße 17, Freiburg, 79085, Germany

    Ulrich Stobbe & Ludger Sproll

  7. Department of Biology, Microbial Evolution Research Group, University of Oslo, Postboks 1066 Blindern, Oslo, 0316, Norway

    Håvard Kauserud

  8. Institute for Forest Growth, University of Freiburg, Tennebacher Straße 4, Freiburg, 79085, Germany

    Willy Tegel

  9. Department of Biology, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis CEES, University of Oslo, Postboks 1066 Blindern, Oslo, 0316, Norway

    Nils C. Stenseth

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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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