Environmental and Microbial Relationships

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
1 Running Hot and Cold: Recombination Around and Within Mating-Type Loci of Fungi and Other Eukaryotes....Pages 3-13
2 Ecological Biogeography of Lichen-Forming Fungi....Pages 15-37
Front Matter....Pages 39-39
3 The Bright and Dark Sides of Fungal Life....Pages 41-77
4 Disturbance in Natural Ecosystems: Scaling from Fungal Diversity to Ecosystem Functioning....Pages 79-98
5 Fungi and Industrial Pollutants....Pages 99-125
6 Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polymers by Fungi....Pages 127-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
7 Evolution in Heritable Bacterial–Fungal Endosymbioses....Pages 151-160
8 An Emerging Interdisciplinary Field: Fungal–Bacterial Interactions....Pages 161-178
9 Lichen–Bacterial Interactions....Pages 179-188
10 Mycorrhizal Fungi and the Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling....Pages 189-203
11 Understanding the Biodiversity and Functions of Root Fungal Endophytes: The Ascomycete Harpophora oryzae as a Model Case....Pages 205-214
12 Ecological Genomics of Mycotrophic Fungi....Pages 215-246
13 Nematophagous Fungi....Pages 247-267
14 Beetles versus Fungi: Trophic Interactions in Boreal Forests....Pages 269-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-291