Mycorrhizal Dynamics in Ecological Systems

Interdisciplinary volume on dynamic interactions between plants and fungi and how they scale up to land management and global change.

Michael F. Allen (Author)

9780521539104, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2022

318 pages
22.8 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.52 kg

Mycorrhizae are mutualisms between plants and fungi that evolved over 400 million years ago. This symbiotic relationship commenced with land invasion, and as new groups evolved, new organisms developed with varying adaptations to changing conditions. Based on the author's 50 years of knowledge and research, this book characterizes mycorrhizae through the most rapid global environmental changes in human history. It applies that knowledge in many different scenarios, from restoring strip mines in Wyoming and shifting agriculture in the Yucatán, to integrating mutualisms into science policy in California and Washington, D.C. Toggling between ecological theory and natural history of a widespread and long-lived symbiotic relationship, this interdisciplinary volume scales from structure-function and biochemistry to ecosystem dynamics and global change. This remarkable study is of interest to a wide range of students, researchers, and land-use managers.

Preface
Glossary of key terms
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Structure-functioning relationships
3. Evolutionary Ecology
4. Physiological Ecology
5. Population Ecology
6. Community Ecology
7. Ecosystem Dynamics
8. Mycorrhizae and Succession
9. Global Change
10. Conservation, Restoration, and Re-Wilding: Mycorrhizae as a Cornerstone
Conclusion and Summary
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Plant ecology [PSTS], Mycology, fungi [non-medical PSQ], Evolution [PSAJ]