Overview
- Provides new insights into plant and fungal ecology and biogeography
- Describes best practices and novel methods in biogeographic and phylogeographic studies
- Sets standards for the overall definition and interpretation of mycorrhizal symbiosis in plants
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 230)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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About this book
This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides an updated definition of mycorrhizal types and establishes the best practices of modern biogeographic analyses. Individual chapters address the basic processes and mechanisms driving community ecology, population biology and dispersal in mycorrhizal fungi, which differ greatly from these of prokaryotes, plants and animals. Other chapters review the state-of-the-art knowledge about the distribution, ecology and biogeography of all mycorrhizal types and the most important fungal groups involved in mycorrhizal symbiosis. The book argues that molecular methods have revolutionized our understanding of the ecology and biogeography of mycorrhizal symbiosis and that rapidly evolving high-throughput identification and genomics tools will provide unprecedented information about the structure and functioning of mycorrhizal symbiosis on a global scale. This volume appeals to scientists in the fields of plant and fungal ecology and biogeography.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Leho Tedersoo
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia
email: leho.tedersoo@ut.ee
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
Editors: Leho Tedersoo
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56363-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56362-6Published: 15 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85896-8Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56363-3Published: 01 June 2017
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 566
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Mycology, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Evolutionary Biology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology