The importance of fungi in shaping the paleoecosystem

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 249-262

  Taylor, Thomas N ^a   Osborn, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTROPHIC INTERACTION; FUNGI; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPH; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOECOSYSTEM; PARASITIC INTERACTION; SAPROPHYTIC INTERACTION;

EID: 0029729145     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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