This book offers a timely overview and synthesis of biogeographic patterns of plants and fungi and their mycorrhizal associations across geographic scales.

This volume covers the causes and consequences of coral bleaching in various geographical regions. The analysis spans from individual colonies to larger ecosystems and also discusses how it can be detected and quantified. Future scenarios are probed.

Drawing on a diverse pool of global expertise, the authors present diverse approaches that span a range of scales and levels of complexity. The respective chapters provide in-depth information on the current state of research, and outline future prospects in the field of aboveground-belowground community ecology.

Cave organisms are the `monsters' of the underground world and studying them invariably raises interesting questions about the ways evolution has equipped them to survive in permanent darkness and low-energy environments.