The effect of human disturbance on fungal diversity in the tropics

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 19-26

  Tsui, Kin Ming ^a   Fryar, Sally C ^a   Hodgkiss, I John ^a   Hyde, Kevin D ^a   Poonyth, Asha D ^a   Taylor, Joanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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