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Fossil Fungi (Hardcover)
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Fossil Fungi (Hardcover)
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Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the
evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in
the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted
exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through geologic
time. The book begins with the historical context of research on
fossil fungi (paleomycology), followed by how fungi are formed and
studied as fossils, and their age. The next six chapters focus on
the major lineages of fungi, arranging them in phylogenetic order
and placing the fossils within a systematic framework. For each
fossil the age and provenance are provided. Each chapter provides a
detailed introduction to the living members of the group and a
discussion of the fossils that are believed to belong in this
group. The extensive bibliography (~ 2700 entries) includes papers
on both extant and fossil fungi. Additional chapters include
lichens, fungal spores, and the interactions of fungi with plants,
animals, and the geosphere. The final chapter includes a discussion
of fossil bacteria and other organisms that are fungal-like in
appearance, and known from the fossil record. The book includes
more than 475 illustrations, almost all in color, of fossil fungi,
line drawings, and portraits of people, as well as a glossary of
more than 700 mycological and paleontological terms that will be
useful to both biologists and geoscientists.
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