"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Floral nectar represents an ephemeral habitat that is restricted in time and space to
zoophilous flowering vegetation. To survive in these habitats, nectar-inhabiting …

Understanding when and why new species are recruited into microbial communities is a
formidable problem with implications for managing microbial systems, for instance by …

Almost all land plant species form a symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. These soil fungi
provide nutrients and other services to plants in return for plant carbohydrates. The recent …

Plant and animal systems had a head start of several decades in community ecology and
have largely created the theoretical framework for the field. I argue that the lag in fungal …

Floral nectars become easily colonized by microbes, most often species of the
ascomycetous yeast genus Metschnikowia. Although it is known that nectar composition can …

Although many studies have shown that species competition significantly influences the
species coexistence and composition of forest communities, effect of slope direction on the …