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Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands - Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods (Hardcover)
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Mushrooms in Forests and Woodlands - Resource Management, Values and Local Livelihoods (Hardcover)
Series: People and Plants International Conservation
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Many mushrooms - or the 'fruits of fungi' - are extremely valuable,
wild-gathered products which are utilised for both their medicinal
properties and as food. In many of the world's tropical and
temperate forests, they are the primary source of income for the
people who live there. These forests range from temperate woodlands
and small forests to high altitude forests in the Himalaya and
tropical miombo woodlands in south-central Africa. In south-west
China, over 200 species of wild fungi in 64 genera are commercially
traded while in Europe and North America, woodlands and small
forests are the source of many highly-prized mushrooms and an
essential resource for many small enterprises and collectors. Yet
the increased demand for timber has resulted in the rapid expansion
of forestry, which in turn has destroyed the natural habitat of
many fungi, unbalancing both forest economics and ecology. Despite
the economic, social and cultural values of fungi, there is a
general lack of understanding of their importance to local
livelihoods and forest ecology. This book aims to fill this gap and
extends the People and Plants Conservation Series beyond the plant
kingdom into the related world of fungi and mushrooms. It
demonstrates the crucial roles that fungi play in maintaining
forest ecosystems and the livelihoods of rural people throughout
the world while providing good practice guidelines for the
sustainable management of this resource and an assessment of
economic value. It brings together the perspectives of biologists,
anthropologists and forest and woodland managers to provide a
unique inter-disciplinary and international overview of the key
issues.
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