21st Century Guidebook to Fungi, SECOND EDITION, by David Moore, Geoffrey D. Robson and Anthony P. J. Trinci

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1: 21st century fungal communities
   1. What and where are fungi
   2. Soil, the essential terrestrial habitat
   3. How much soil is there and where is it
   4. The nature of soil and who made it
   5. Soil biota are extremely varied and numerous
   6. Microbial diversity in soil
   7. Microbial diversity in general
   8. Geomycology
   9. The origins of agriculture and our dependence on fungi
   10. Chapter 1 References and further reading
   11. Buy a PDF of Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2: Evolutionary origins

Chapter 1: 21st century fungal communities

This second edition of our book continues to emphasise interactions between fungi and other organisms to bring out the functions and behaviours of biological systems; but this edition features a thorough section-by-section update from mycology-2008/10 to mycology-2019/20.

However, we continue to maintain our aim to:

• concentrate on integration rather than reduction, to satisfy those who would see systems biology as a paradigm of scientific method;
• include computational modelling and bioinformatics for those who view systems biology in terms of operational research protocols;
• bring together data about biological systems from diverse interdisciplinary sources, to offer our readers a comprehensive, all-embracing view of today’s fungal biology..

In this Chapter we examine present day communities; starting with the essential terrestrial habitat and the nature and formation of soil. We emphasise the contributions made by fungi to soil structure and chemistry; and particularly what has come to be called geomycology. We also discuss the diversity of organisms in soil and illustrate interactions between bacteria, amoebae (including slime moulds), fungi, nematodes, microarthropods and larger animals. The origins of agriculture are briefly mentioned and our dependence on fungi briefly illustrated.

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Updated July, 2019