Tree canopy biodiversity in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ecological and developmental observations of a new myxomycete species of Diachea

Mycologia

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 537-547

  Keller, Harold W ^a   Skrabal, Melissa ^a   Eliasson, Uno H ^b   Gaither, Thomas W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diachea; Ecology; Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Myxomycetes; Slime mold; Tree canopy

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANOPY; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

APPALACHIANS; GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; COLUMELLA; DIACHEA; DIACHEA ARBORICOLA; DIDYMIIDAE; FILICOPHYTA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS AMERICANA; FUNGI; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARIIDA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA;

EID: 2942642665     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15572536.2005.11832952     Document Type: Review

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