Tree canopy biodiversity: Student research experiences in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Systematics and Geography of Plants

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-65

  Keller, Harold W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory; Bryophytes; Fungi; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Lichens; Myxomycetes; Tree canopy biodiversity

Indexed keywords

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DIACHEA; FILICOPHYTA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS AMERICANA; FUNGI; GASTROPODA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; LIRIODENDRON; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MYXOGASTRIA; PINUS STROBUS; POLYPODIUM APPALACHIANUM; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; STEMONITIS AXIFERA; STROBUS;

EID: 2942632547     PISSN: 03039153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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