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SUMMARY:The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex
  - Professor John Crawford\, University of Abertay\, Dundee
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DESCRIPTION:Soil harbours most of the world's biological diversity and its
  functionality supports the rest of the terrestrial ecosystem. To manage t
 he soil system in a sustainable way\, we need to understand the origins of
  its dynamical state and characterise the stability and efficiencies of as
 sociated processes. Recent ideas on the importance of the interaction betw
 een physical and biological processes in determining its dynamical state w
 ill be discussed\, along with the possibility that the soil-microbe comple
 x is self-organising. Evidence that the contribution to the dynamics from 
 soil fungi is key will be presented and it will be shown that this present
 s special challenges to the development of a theoretical framework for soi
 l. A model for the fungal phenotype will be described and some ideas on ho
 w this model may be extended to explore the interaction between the commun
 ity dynamics of fungi and the dynamics of the soil-microbe complex will be
  given. 
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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