Functional and taxonomic diversity of saprobic filamentous fungi from Typha latifolia from Central Alberta, Canada

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 675-684

  Schulz, Michael J ^a   Thormann, Markus N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon; Decomposition; Enzymatic abilities; Fungi; Mass losses; Typha latifolia

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WETLAND;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; TRACHEOPHYTA; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 33744786388     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0675:FATDOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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