Fungi and Environmental Change

This volume considers fungi in the context of the effect of humankind's activity on their habitats.

Juliet C. Frankland (Edited by), Naresh Magan (Edited by), Geoffrey M. Gadd (Edited by)

9780521106252, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 June 2009

368 pages, 10 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.54 kg

Despite an upsurge in national and international debate on environmental issues since the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, fungi, vital to the functioning of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, are rarely mentioned. This volume helps redress this imbalance by considering fungi in the context of the impact of humankind's activity on their habitats. The presentation of experimental evidence is a major feature of the volume. Contributions on the effects of global warming, UV-B radiation, atmospheric and terrestrial pollutants, deforestation in the tropics, loss of biodiversity, genetic engineering and chaos theory ensure a topical and balanced coverage, with both ecological and physiological viewpoints being represented. This timely review will be of interest to all mycologists and those ecologists concerned with environmental change.

Preface
1. Effects of climate change on fungal diseases of trees D. Lonsdale and J. N. Gibbs
2. effects of climate change on Fusarium foot rot of winter wheat in the United Kingdom T. R. Pettitt and D. W. Parry
3. Effects of UV-B radiation (280–320 nm) on foliar saprotrophs and pathogens T. S. Gunasekera, M. S. Rasanayagam and N. D. Paul
4. Implications of global warming and rising sea-levels for macrofungi in UK dune systems M. Rotheroe
5. Red Data Lists and decline in fruiting of macromycetes in relation to pollution and loss of habitat B. Ing
6. Effects of dry-deposited SO2 and sulphite on saprotrophic fungi and decomposition of tree leaf litter L. Boddy, J. C. Frankland, S. Dursun, K. K. Newsham and P. Ineson
7. Effects of atmospheric pollutants on phyllosphere and endophytic fungi N. Magan, M. K. Smith and I. A. Kirkwood
8. Influences of acid mist and ozone on the fluorescein diacetate activity of leaf litter P. J. A. Shaw
9. Mycorrhizas and environmental stress J. V. Colpaert and K. K. Van Tichelen
10. Myccorhizas, succession, and the rehabilitation of deforested lands in the humid tropics D. P. Janos
11. Potential effects on the soil mycroflora of changes in the UK agricultural policy for upland grasslands R. D. Bardgett
12. Uptake and immobilization of caesium in UK grassland and forest soils by fungi, following the Chernobyl accident J. Dighton and G. Terry
13. Effects of pollutants on aquatic hyphomycetes colonizing leaf material in freshwaters S. Bermingham
14. Fungi and salt stress L. Adler
15. Fungal sequestration, mobilization and transformation of metals and metalloids G. F. Morley, J. A. Sayer, S. C. Wilkinson, M. M. Gharieb and G. M. Gadd
16. Urban, industrial and agricultural effects on lichens D. H. Brown
17. Fungal interactions with metals and radionuclides for environmental bioremediation I. Singleton and J. M. Tobin
18. Impact of genetically-modified microorganisms on the terrestrial microbiota including fungi J. M. Whipps, F. A. A. M. de Leij, J. M. Lynch and M. J. Bailey
19. Has chaos theory a place in environmental mycology? A. D. M. Rayner
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]