John Dighton

Fungi in Ecosystem Processes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition continues the unique approach of examining the roles of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions. It explores how fungi have adapted to survive within particular constraints, how they help to maintain homeostasis in ecosystems, how they facilitate resistance to perturbations, and how they influence the communities of other organisms. It contains substantial expansions to previous material, including discussions of new molecular techniques of metagenomics, transcriptomics and proteomics in understanding fungal functions and a new section on fungi in the built environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781482249057
• ISBN-10: 1482249057
• Artikelnr.: 44157252

Autorenporträt

John Dighton earned his MSc in ecology from Durham University, UK, and his PhD from London University, UK. After a brief spell of teaching high school, he worked for 15 years for the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Merlewood, UK, where he studied ectomycorrhizal fungi, forest soil ecology, forest nutrition, and the impacts of pollutants on fungi. He moved to the United States and started working with Rutgers University to run their Pinelands Field Station in the pine barrens of New Jersey. He has published more than 100 scientific papers; serves on the editorial boards of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Fungal Biology, and Fungal Ecology; and has edited books on soil and mycology-related topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Making Nutrients Available for Primary Production. Role of
Fungi in Promoting Primary Production. Role of Fungi in Reducing Primary
Production. Fungi and Secondary Productivity. Fungi as Animal Pathogens:
Negative Impacts on Faunal Productivity. Fungal Interactions with
Pollutants and Climate Change. Fungi in the Built Environment.