| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary of Key Terms -- 1 Introduction -- Historical Types of Mycorrhizae -- Resource Dynamics and Mycorrhizae -- Distribution of Mycorrhizae -- Hierarchy and Complexity -- Networking Topology and Connectivity Dynamics -- Complexity and Stoichiometry -- Natural History, Theory, and Complexity -- Summary -- 2 Structure-Functioning Relationships -- Features in Common -- Structures of Mycorrhizae and Their Phylogenic Distribution -- Cell to Mycelial Structure and Connectivity |
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Connectivity of Mycorrhizae -- Architecture and Distribution of Mycorrhizae -- Summary -- 3 Evolutionary Ecology -- Paleobiology and the Evolution of Mycorrhizae -- Dawn, Long Beginnings, and the Spread of Mycorrhizae: 500 MYa to 145 MYa -- Explosion of Mycorrhizae: 145 MYa to 66 MYa -- A Long Decline and Re-emergence? 66 MYa to Today -- Mathematical Models, Stability, and Evolutionary Cheaters -- Fungal Genetic Structure -- Saprotrophic versus Parasitic versus Mycorrhizal Existence -- Molecular Attributes and Fungal Infections -- Summary -- 4 Physiological Ecology |
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Creating Demand: Stoichiometry -- Passive Water Mass Flow -- Apoplastic Flux -- Bidirectional Flow Patterns and Connectivity: Another Role of Apoplastic Transport -- Symplastic Water Transport -- Plant Water Status and Mycorrhizae in the Field -- Active Transport and Nutrient Uptake -- P Uptake -- N Uptake -- Fe Uptake -- Stoichiometry, Carbon, and Dynamic Exchanges -- C:Nutrient Relationships -- C Uptake and Allocation -- Responses in Extremes -- Connectivity and Complexity Implications -- Summary -- 5 Population Ecology -- What Is an Individual versus a Population? -- Genetic Structure |
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What Is an Appropriate Taxonomic Unit for Population and Community Analyses? -- Environmental Impacts on Population Differentiation -- Population Change and r and K Selection -- Sporocarp and Spore Counts -- Extramatrical Hyphal Lengths -- Bioassays -- Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) -- Measuring Fungal Fitness -- Measuring Plant Fitness -- Quantitative Modeling of Population Parameters -- Experimental C and Nutrient Additions -- Summary -- 6 Community Ecology -- Fitness and Limiting Resources: Defining Mechanisms Delineating Community Interactions |
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Competition Is a Critical Mechanism Regulating Species Interactions -- Demonstrating Competition -- Determining Mechanisms of Competition -- The Role of a Common Mycorrhizal Network (CMN) -- Traits of Resource Extraction -- Spatial Structure -- Feedbacks -- Spatial Structure of a Community -- Describing a Community Means Defining the Boundaries -- ? Diversity -- ? Diversity -- ? Diversity -- Island Biogeography -- Architecture -- Other Factors -- Food Webs and Communities -- Time and Community Structure -- Integration: Mycorrhizal Community Diversity Patterns -- Summary -- 7 Ecosystem Dynamics |
| Summary |
"The Perigord Truffle, Tuber melanosporum Vittad 1831, as of this writing, could be purchased for $19.97 per 14g (0.5oz), or US$1,426 per kg. These "black diamonds" are one of the ultimate human gastronomic experiences. Yet, despite centuries of study by outstanding scientists, the biology of truffles is so poorly understood that they cannot be commercially produced in consistent, meaningful quantities. Most gastronomic truffles still come from individual truffle hunters, working in orchards or wildlands and selling to expert middlemen, then to the international market often through back doors (see (375)). Efforts to collect truffles have been undertaken throughout recorded history as Romans, Greeks, Babylonians, Sumerians, and Egyptians all wrote about the fruit of Aphrodite (Aristotle). The complexity of formation, attributed to particular trees, lightning or thunder, or soils led to extensive research during the 19th century, culminating in the funding of the work of Albert Bernhard Frank, a forest pathologist, supported by the King of Prussia. Little did any of the early researchers recognize that the biology of Tuber was only a small, yet complicated piece of a story of a diverse type of symbiosis, that plays a major storyline in biological theory, in the application of agriculture and forestry, and holds keys to how carbon was sequestered in the early earth and provides directions to reducing the global CO2-climate impacts. Truffles, including members of the genus Tuber, are mycorrhizal fungi. That is, they are mutualistic fungi, associated with a limited array of host trees, such as oaks, beeches, and hazelnuts. Being a mutualistic symbiont means that not only is the ecology of the fungus complex, but the ecology of the host is also complex. Adding in the complexity of climate and soils that change over time and space, the association falls into the theoretical construct of biology called biocomplexity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022) |
| Subject |
Mycorrhizal fungi -- Ecology
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Mutualism (Biology)
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Plant-fungus relationships.
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Plant-soil relationships.
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Mutualism (Biology)
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Mycorrhizal fungi -- Ecology
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Plant-fungus relationships
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Plant-soil relationships
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021053891 |
| ISBN |
9781139020299 |
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1139020293 |
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