Fungi in ecosystem processes [Elektronisk resurs] / John Dighton.

• 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Why Fungi? -- 1.2 What Are Ecosystems and Ecosystem Functions? -- 1.3 What Are Fungi? -- 1.4 Specific Ecosystem Services Carried Out by Fungi -- 1.5 Concluding Remarks -- 2. Fungi and Primary Productivity: Making Nutrients Available -- 2.1 Soils and Nutrient Availability -- 2.2 Nutrient Availability in Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems -- 2.3 Concluding Remarks -- 3. Fungi and Primary Productivity: Plant Growth and Carbon Fixation -- 3.1 The Role of Lichens in Primary Production -- 3.2 The Role of Mycorrhizae in Plant Primary Production -- 3.3 The Role of Fungal Pathogens in Plant Primary Production -- 3.4 Interactions Among Mycorrhizae and Plant Pathogens -- 3.5 Synopsis and Outlook -- 4. Fungi, Secondary Productivity, and Other Fungal-Faunal Interactions -- 4.1 Fungi as Food for Secondary Producers: Positive Impacts on Faunal Productivity -- 4.2 Effects of Grazing on Fungi and Fungal-Mediated -- Processes: Negative and Positive Feedbacks -- 4.3 Specific Fungal-Faunal Interactions -- 4.4 Fungi as Animal Pathogens: Negative Impacts on Faunal Productivity -- 4.5 Fungal-Faunal Interactions in Aquatic and Marine Ecosystems -- 4.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. Fungi and Population and Community Regulation -- 5.1 Mycorrhizae and Plant Successions -- 5.2 Mycorrhizae and Plant Fitness -- 5.3 Plant Pathogens and Plant Fitness -- 5.4 Saprotroph-Pathogen Interactions: Biocontrol -- 5.5 Mycorrhizae-Pathogen Interactions -- 5.6 Endophytes and Antiherbivore Action -- 5.7 Nematophagous Fungi and Animal Pathogens -- 5.8 Allelopathy -- 5.9 Summary and Discussion -- 6. Fungal Interactions with Humans -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Fungi and Acidifying Pollutants -- 6.3 Fungi and Heavy Metals -- 6.4 Fungi and Radionuclides -- 6.5 Fungi and Climate Change -- 6.6 Concluding Remarks -- 7. Synopsis and Outlook to the Future -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Ecosystem -- 7.3 The Fungal Organism -- 7.4 The Fungal Community -- 7.5 Perturbations -- 7.6 Fungi in Ecosystems: What Next?. 

• Adopting the novel approach of viewing the role of fungi from the perspective of ecosystem functions, this book examines the importance of fungi in soil formation, plant primary production, sustenance of secondary producers, and regulation of plant and animal populations and communities. This volume emphasizes the idea that fungi are not alone in the regulation of these processes. It addresses the main processes occurring in ecosystems and showing where and how fungi are critical, and enables readers to gain a better understanding of the role of fungi in shaping ecosystems. Fungi in Ecosystem Processes considers the negative impact of fungi on faunal productivity and includes more than 1200 citations. 

Ämnesord

Mykologi  (sao)

Svampar  (sao)

Mykorrhiza  (sao)

Synekologi  (sao)

mycology  (agrovoc)

fungi  (agrovoc)

plant soil relations  (agrovoc)

mycorrhizae  (agrovoc)

nitrogen fixation  (agrovoc)

soil fungi  (agrovoc)

lichenes  (agrovoc)

ecosystems  (agrovoc)

primary productivity  (agrovoc)

Mycology  (LCSH)

Mycorrhizas  (LCSH)

Fungi  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ufhe Svampar (Fungi)

Ufhe Svampar (Fungi)

Klassifikation

QK604.2.E26 (LCC)

579.5/17 (DDC)

Ufhe/DR (kssb/7)

Ufhe (kssb/7)