1: Agarics and Boletes of Neotropical Oakwoods, 2: Diversity and Ecology of Tropical Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Africa, 3: The Occurrence and Distribution of Putative Ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycetes in a Regenerating South-east Asian rainforest, 4: Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles Project, 5: Tropical brown- and Black-spored Mexican Agarics with Particular Reference to Gymnopilus 6: Patterns of Polypore Distribution in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Is Wallace's line Significant? 7: The Biology, Ecology and Pathology of Phellinus noxious in Taiwan, 8: Production of Lignolytic Enzymes by Species Assemblages of Tropical Higher Fungi from Ecuador 9: Laboratory Studies with Leucoagaricus and Attine Ants, 10: Conservation of Mycodiversity in India: An Appraisal, 11: Mushroom collecting in Tanzania and Hunan (Southern China): Inherited Wisdom and Folklore of Two Different Cultures, 12: Impact of Developmental, Physiological and Environmental Studies on the Commercial Cultivation of mushrooms, VOLUME : 1

1. Why study tropical fungi? 2. Key to tropical species of nectarine-like fungi 3. A reassessment of the taxonomy of some tropical sooty moulds 4. Lignicolous freshwater higher fungi with reference to their teleomorph and anamorph stages 5. The Pandanaceae- does it have a diverse and unique fungal biota? 6. Aspects of graminivorous downy mildew biology: Perspectives for tropical plant pathology and peronosporomycetes phylogeny 7. Invasive neotropical of thee crops 8. Lichens of tropical forests 9. The importance of invertebrate-pathogenic fungi from the tropics 10. Tropical mycoses: Hazards to travellers 11. Recent and future discoveries of pharamacologically active metabolites from tropical fungi VOLUME : 2

This book describes the ecology, biology, economic dimensions and systematics of tropical Macromycetes. Written by leading experts in their field, the papers have been thoroughly edited and revised.