Species richness and ecological characterization of myxomycetes and myxomycete-like organisms in the canopy of a temperate deciduous forest

Mycologia

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 223-232

  Schnittler, Martin ^a   Unterseher, Martin ^b   Tesmer, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eumycetozoa; Myxobacteria; Protostelids; Sorogena

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; SLIME MOULD; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPORE; TREE;

ANIMAL; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYXOMYCETES; REVIEW; TREE;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MYXOMYCETES; TREES;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LEIPZIG; SAXONY;

ARCYRIA CINEREA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOGASTRIA; PERICHAENA; PROTOSTELIDA; SOROGENA STOIANOVITCHAE;

EID: 33746089502     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 00275514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.98.2.223     Document Type: Review

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