THE ENTOLOMATACEAE OF TASMANIA BY MACHIEL E. NOORDELOOS & GENEVIEVE M. GATES: A BOOK REVIEW BY JUAN CAMILO RODRÍGUEZ MARTÍNEZ
The monumental jointly published research of Machiel E. Noordeloos and Genevieve M. Gates on the Entolomataceae family of fungi in Tasmania will be remembered for many years as one of the most specific and best achieved researches in the history of mycology and fungal taxonomy. The results of 14 years of research are brilliantly exposed in this book published by the prestigious academy publisher Springer. The main authors of the project in the course of the project received help from other researchers which would give the research an international character reflected in the impeccable research. Those who collaborated on the project in addition to Genevieve and Gates and Machiel Noordeloos were the researchers David Ratkowsky, Michael Pilkington, and Fernanda Karstedt who with their brilliant contributions make this publication an excellent book. The introduction is facinating. The climates and the different descriptions of the terrains present on the island are given t...