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Fungi in vegetation science
Wulfard . Ed(S): Winterhoff
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Description for Fungi in vegetation science
Paperback. Editor(s): Winterhoff, Wulfard. Series: Handbook of Vegetation Science. Num Pages: 258 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 439.
Readers will perhaps be surprised to find a volume about fungi within a handbook of vegetation science. Although fungi traditionally feature in textbooks on botany, at least since Whittaker (1969), they have mostly been categorised as an independent kingdom of organisms or, in contrast to the animal and plant kingdom, as probionta together with algae and protozoa. More relevant for ecology than the systematic separation of fungi from plants is the different lifestyle of fungi which, in contrast to most plants, live as parasites, saprophytes or in symbiosis. Theoretical factors aside, there ... Read more
Readers will perhaps be surprised to find a volume about fungi within a handbook of vegetation science. Although fungi traditionally feature in textbooks on botany, at least since Whittaker (1969), they have mostly been categorised as an independent kingdom of organisms or, in contrast to the animal and plant kingdom, as probionta together with algae and protozoa. More relevant for ecology than the systematic separation of fungi from plants is the different lifestyle of fungi which, in contrast to most plants, live as parasites, saprophytes or in symbiosis. Theoretical factors aside, there ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Series
Handbook of Vegetation Science
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401050654
SKU
V9789401050654
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99-15
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