Microclimatic parameters influencing nitrogen fixation in the phyllosphere in a Costa Rican premontane rain forest

Oecologia

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 9-18

  Freiberg, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costa Rica; Cyanobacteria; Microclimate; Nitrogen fixation; Phyllosphere

Indexed keywords

MICROCLIMATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLLOSPHERE; RAINFOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0032421771     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050625     Document Type: Article

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