Fungal Ecology
Fungi play vital roles in all ecosystems, as decomposers, symbionts of animals and plants and as parasites. Thus their ecology is of great interest. It has been estimated that there may be as many as 1. 5 million species of fungi, many of which are still undescribed. These interact in various ways w...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Life strategies of fungi
- 2 The mycelium and substrates for growth
- 2.1 The mycelium
- 2.2 Spores and other mycelial-derived structures
- 2.3 Substrata and substrates for saprotrophs
- 3 Structure of fungal communities
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Development of fungal communities
- 3.3 Successions
- 4 Colonization and decomposition of leaves
- 4.1 Deposition
- 4.2 Colonization of living leaves
- 4.3 Factors affecting the development of fungal communities on leaf surfaces
- 4.4 Fungal successions in leaf litter
- 4.5 Decomposition of leaf litter
- 5 Development of fungal communities on herbaceous stems and grasses
- 5.1 Distribution of fungal populations on Dactylis glomerata
- 5.2 Interpretation of distribution patterns
- 5.3 Distribution patterns on other plants
- 6 Colonization and decay of wood
- 6.1 Wood as a resource
- 6.2 Colonization of woody tissues
- 6.3 Types of wood rot
- 6.4 Water relations
- 12.2 Xerotolerant and osmotolerant fungi
- 13 Terrestrial macrofungi
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Wood-decay macrofungi
- 13.3 Litter decomposers
- 13.4 Mycorrhizal macrofungi
- References
- 7 Fungi of soil and rhizosphere
- 7.1 Techniques for studying fungi of soil and roots
- 7.2 Fungal distribution in soil
- 7.3 Fungal activity in soil
- 7.4 The rhizosphere and root colonization
- 8 Coprophilous fungi
- 8.1 Succession of coprophilous fungi
- 8.2 Comparison of the fungal flora of different animal dungs
- 8.3 Autecological studies
- 9 Aquatic fungi
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Freshwater fungi
- 9.3 Marine fungi
- 10 Nematophagous fungi
- 10.1 Techniques for studying nematophagous fungi
- 10.2 Distribution and abundance
- 10.3 Ecological characteristics
- 10.4 Biological control of pathogenic nematodes
- 11 Phoenicoid fungi
- 11.1 Chemical, physical and biological changes in soil after burning
- 11.2 Ecological characteristics and phenology
- 11.3 Experimental studies
- 11.4 Fruiting of phoenicoid fungi following volcanic eruptions
- 12 Fungi of extreme environments
- 12.1 Thermotolerant and psychrotolerant fungi