Pulling the threads together: Habitat diversity

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 753-763

  Watling, Roy ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diversity; endophytes; habitat loss; mycorrhiza; saprotrophs

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; HABITAT DIVERSITY;

FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030617934     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018374404998     Document Type: Article

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