Contents -- Dedication -- Contributors -- Preface -- 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 noxius in Taiwan -- 8 Production of Ligninolytic 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 -- Index.