This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi
and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales. Written by leading experts in the
field it provides an updated definition of mycorrhizal types and establishes the best
practices of modern biogeographic analyses. Individual chapters address the basic processes and
mechanisms driving community ecology population biology and dispersal in mycorrhizal fungi
which differ greatly from these of prokaryotes plants and animals. Other chapters review the
state-of-the-art knowledge about the distribution ecology and biogeography of all mycorrhizal
types and the most important fungal groups involved in mycorrhizal symbiosis. The book argues
that molecular methods have revolutionized our understanding of the ecology and biogeography of
mycorrhizal symbiosis and that rapidly evolving high-throughput identification and genomics
tools will provide unprecedented information about the structure and functioning of mycorrhizal
symbiosis on a global scale. This volume appeals to scientists in the fields of plant and
fungal ecology and biogeography.
