Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 960 pages
- Published by: CRC
- Edition: 2nd Edition May 24, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0824723554
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0824723552
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Book Dimensions:
10.3 x 7.2 x 2.1 inches
- Weighs: 4.2 pounds
Product Review
These 44 chapters are an great starting point for anyone interested in fungal communities, in the broadest sense of the term. It is a book for dipping into…may be the last comprehensive treatment of fungal communities before the molecular revolution.
-Meriel Jones, University of Liverpool, UK, Microbiology Today
These 44 chapters are an great starting point for anyone interested in fungal communities, in the broadest sense of the term. It is a book for dipping into…may be the last comprehensive treatment of fungal communities before the molecular revolution.
-Meriel Jones, University of Liverpool, UK, Microbiology Today
…a number of chapters provide great summaries of the modern methods available for studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely valuable…overall it is a hugely valuable enyclopedia of fungal ecology research. It is a must for the library shelf, and at its reasonable price I highly recommend it for purchase by any researcher with an interest in fungi and the environment.
-Lynne Boddy, Cardi University, UK, Mycological Research, 2006
…a number of chapters provide great summaries of the modern methods available for studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely valuable…overall it is a hugely valuable enyclopedia of fungal ecology research. It is a must for the library shelf, and at its reasonable price I highly recommend it for purchase by any researcher with an interest in fungi and the environment.
-Lynne Boddy, Cardi University, UK, Mycological Research, 2006
Product Description
The Fungal Community: Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Third Edition addresses many of the questions related to the observations, characterizations, and functional attributes of fungal assemblages and their interaction with the environment and other organisms. This edition promotes awareness of the functional methods of classification over taxonomic methods, and approaches the concept of fungal communities from an ecological perspective, rather than from a fungicentric view. It has expanded to examine issues of global and local biodiversity, the problems associated with exotic species, and the debate concerning diversity and function. The third edition also focuses on current ecological discussions - diversity and function, scaling issues, disturbance, and invasive species - from a fungal perspective. In order to address these concepts, the book looks at the appropriate techniques to identify fungi, calculate their abundance, determine their associations among themselves and other organisms, and measure their individual and community function. This book explains attempts to scale these measures from the microscopic cell level through local, landscape, and ecosystem levels. The totality of the ideas, methods, and results presented by the contributing authors points to the future direction of mycology.
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