Yeasts in Natural Ecosystems: Ecology

by Pietro Buzzini, Marc-André Lachance, Andrey Yurkov

Overview

This book presents an up-to-date review of the ecology of yeast communities in natural ecosystems. It focuses on their biological interactions, including mutualism, parasitism, commensalism and antagonistic interactions, and is closely connected with the volume Yeasts in Natural Ecosystems: Diversity by the same editors.

Yeasts are the smallest eukaryotic organisms successfully growing under a wide range of environmental conditions. They constantly modify the environment through their own metabolic activities. Although yeasts are among the earlier colonizers of nutrient-rich substrates, their role in ecosystem processes is not limited to the consumption and transformation of simple sugars. They also engage in close relationships with animals, plants and other fungi in the environment as mutualists, competitors, parasites and pathogens. This book reviews the diversity of biological interactions and roles of yeasts in ecosystems and summarises recent concepts and tools developed in community ecology. All of the chapters were written by leading international yeast research experts, and will appeal to researchers and advanced students in the field of microbial ecology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319615745
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	293
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Pietro Buzzini, Industrial Yeasts Collection DBVPG, Department of Agricultural, Borgo XX Giugno 74, 06121

Perugia, Italy

Prof. Dr. Marc-André Lachance, University of Western Ontario, Department of Biology, 1151 Richmond St, London

N6A 5B7, Canada

Dr. Andrey Yurkov, Leibniz-Institut DSMZ, Inhoffenstr. 7B, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany