Some Chytridiomycota in soil recover from drying and high temperatures

Mycological Research

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 583-589

  Gleason, Frank H ^a   Letcher, Peter M ^b   McGee, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; SOIL BIOTA; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ALLOMYCES; ALLOMYCES ANOMALUS; CATENARIA; CATENOPHLYCTIS; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; POWELLOMYCES; RHIZOPHLYCTIS; RHIZOPHLYCTIS ROSEA; SPIZELLOMYCES; SPIZELLOMYCES SP.;

EID: 2942588896     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0953756204009736     Document Type: Article

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