Analysis of fungal networks

Journal article

Mycelial fungi grow as indeterminate adaptive networks that have to forage for scarce resources in a patchy and unpredictable environment under constant onslaught from mycophagous animals. Development of contrast-independent network extraction algorithms has dramatically improved our ability to characterise these dynamic macroscopic networks and promises to bridge the gap between experiments in realistic experimental microcosms and graph-theoretic network analysis, greatly facilitating quanti...

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Authors: Heaton, L; Obara, B; Grau, V; Jones, N; Nakagaki, T

• Journal: Fungal Biology Reviews
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 12-29
• Publication date: 2012-04-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2012.02.001
• ISSN: 1749-4613
• Language: English
• Keywords: Network resilience; Transport network; Mycophagous invertebrate grazing; Fungal network; Mass-flow modelling; Nutrient translocation