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Readers will perhaps be surprised to find a volume about fungi within a handbook of vegetation science. Although fungi traditionally feature in textbooks on botany, at least since Whittaker (1969), they have mostly been categorised as an independent kingdom of organisms or in contrast to the animal and plant kingdom as probionta together with algae and protozoa. More relevant for ecology than the systematic separation of fungi from plants is the different life style of fungi which in contrast to most plants live as parasites, saprophytes or in symbiosis. Theoretical factors aside, there are also practical methodological considerations which favour the distinction between fungal and plant communities, as has been shown for example by Dörfelt (1974).
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Winterhoff, W. (1992). Introduction. In: Winterhoff, W. (eds) Fungi in vegetation science. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2414-0_1
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