Algal composition of microbiotic crusts from the Central Desert of Raja California, Mexico

Great Basin Naturalist

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-311

  Flechtner, Valerie R ^a   Johansen, Jeffrey R ^a   Clark, William H ^b  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Albertson College of Idaho   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae, soil; Catavina; Central Desert; Cryptogamic crusts; Cylindrocystis brebissonii var. deserti; Elakatothrix obtusata; Fasciculochloris mexicana; Mexico, Baja California; Microbiotic crusts

Indexed keywords

CYLINDROCYSTIS BREBISSONII; ELAKATOTHRIX OBTUSATA; FASCICULOCHLORIS MEXICANA; HANTZSCHIA AMPHIOXYS; LUTICOLA COHNII; LUTICOLA MUTICA; MYRIMECIA ASTIGMATICA; NOSTOC COMMUNE; PINNULARIA BOREALIS; SCHIZOTHRIX CALCICOLA;

EID: 0031728383     PISSN: 00173614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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