Rapid biodiversity assessment of a tropical myxomycete assemblage - Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 9, Issue , 2002, Pages 135-167

  Schnittler, Martin ^a   Lado, Carlos ^b   Stephenson, Steven L ^c  

^a Federal Agency for Nature Conservation   (Germany)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasmodial slime moulds; Rank abundance distribution; Species inventory

Indexed keywords

MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 2942643715     PISSN: 15602745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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