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The disappearing rain forest and damage to other tropical and subtropical habitats has recently provoked considerable public awareness and response from governmental and scientific bodies. Tropical fungi have received little attention to date and this volume aims to correct this deficit. Based on a meeting of the British Mycological Society, the book addresses the challenge which the exceptional diversity of tropical fungi present to taxonomists, biochemists, molecular biologists, ecologists and pathologists alike. The significance of the many tropical species and ectomycorrhizal associations in nutrient cycling in rainforests, desert ecosystems and aquatic habitats is considered, together with an evaluation of the potential of such fungi in the production of commercially useful, novel metabolites.

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• 1 I am part of all that I have met
• 2 Tropical fungi: their commercial potential
• 3 The tropical fungal biota: census pertinence, prophylaxis and prognosis
• 4 The ecology of tropical leaf litter fungi
• 5 Interactions between the pathogen Crinipellis perniciosa and cocoa tissue
• 6 Ecology of tropical marine fungi
• 7 Distribution of Zygomycotina - the tropical connection
• 8 Tropical hyphomyetes from submerged litter in freshwater streams
• 9 Nutrient cycling by fungi in wet tropical forests
• 10 Molecular genetics of Colletotrichum gloesporoides on Stylosanthes spp
• 11 Armillaria in tropical Africa
• Heterobasidiomycetes in the tropics
• Tropical polypores
• 12 Looking for ectomycorrhizal trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi in tropical Africa
• 13 Similarities and differences in the macromycete floras and biological strategies in selected tropical areas
• 14 New and interesting Xylariaceae from the tropics and subtropics; the habitat factor
• 15 Fungi in desert ecosystems: interactions with the soil biota

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CHOICE Review

This edited volume will appeal to two very divergent groups of biologists, those interested in ecology and those interested in the occurrences of fungi in tropical areas. Four excellent chapters on the importance of fungi in cycling of minerals and mycorrhizal associations are joined by three additional ones that examine the interactions of the important pathogens Armillaria, Crinipellis, and Colletotrichum, and their host(s). Seven chapters examine the biogeography of tropical fungi of selected areas. Unfortunately, the study of tropical fungi has been very haphazard; more often than not, "What did you see on your vacation?" is about the best information available. This book is an excellent beginning, with so little information about tropical fungi actually available. A later chapter briefly considers the commercial potential of tropical fungi. The last chapter examines the prospects for future research. The book itself ends with 32 abstracts of invited and offered papers/posters covering many diverse topics. An excellent choice for those interested in tropical ecology or the distribution of fungi in tropical areas. Upper-division undergraduate through professional. J. Dawson; Pittsburg State University