Host specialization among wood-decay polypore fungi in a Caribbean mangrove forest

Biotropica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 396-404

  Gilbert, Gregory S ^a,b   Sousa, Wayne P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avicennia; Datronia; Fungal ecology; Host specialization; Laguncularia; Mangrove forest; Panama; Phellinus; Rhizophora; Trichaptum

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MANGROVE; TROPICAL FOREST;

CARIBBEAN COAST; PANAMA;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DATRONIA; FUNGI; LAGUNCULARIA; LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA; PHELLINUS; RHIZOPHORA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; TRICHAPTUM;

EID: 0036769386     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2002.tb00553.x     Document Type: Article

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