Fungi

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Overview

Brief introduction:

Money, Nicholas P. Fungi: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

A comprehensive textbook:

Watkinson, Sarah C., Lynne Boddy, and Nicholas P. Money. The Fungi. 3rd ed. 1994. Reprint, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2016.

Human-cultural history:

Money, Nicholas P. Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.

Relationships

  • with plants, fungi are essential for nutrient extraction and other functions such as signalling
  • mushrooms can influence the weather 1

As Building Materials

Mostly exploitative, is it avoidable?

Projects

Mushroom Hunting

Resources

A great resource on Australian fungi.

Fungimap

References

Monosson, Emily. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic. New York: W.W. Norton, 2023.

Pouliot, Alison. Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi Across Hemispheres. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.


Footnotes

  1. Hassett, Maribeth O., Mark W. F. Fischer, and Nicholas P. Money. ‘Mushrooms as Rainmakers: How Spores Act as Nuclei for Raindrops’. PLOS ONE 10, no. 10 (2015): e0140407. https://doi.org/10/f78qfs.˄


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