Characteristics of soil filamentous fungi communities isolated from various micro-relief forms in the high Arctic tundra (Bellsund region, Spitsbergen)

Polish Polar Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-73

  Kurek, Ewa ^a   Korniłłowics Kowalska, Teresa ^b   Słomka, Anna ^a   Melke, Jerzy ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic; Ecology; Filamentous fungi; Species richness; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FUNGUS; MICRORELIEF; ORGANIC MATTER; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; BELLSUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CHRYSOSPORIUM; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; MORTIERELLA; PENICILLIUM; PHIALOPHORA;

EID: 34247366350     PISSN: 01380338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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