Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on various methods for studying fungi in soil and forest litter. Now, with the focus on nutrient cycling by fungi in whole ecosystems, bulky dead wood is also treated as an important constituent of a forest floor. The current upsurge in mycorrhizal research has also generated new approaches to integrated studies of fungi in soil, litter, and roots. Whatever the shortcomings of old and new methods of studying soil fungi, investigators' claims have tended to become more reliable with wider recognition that the use of sound statistical techniques when designing experiments and handling numerical data is essential. Statistical analyses are not discussed in this chapter, but some useful references are mentioned. The methods considered in the chapter have been divided into four broad categories: observation, isolation, quantification, and measurement of activity identification are also discussed in this chapter.
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