Microfungi from bark of healthy and damaged American beech, Fraser fir, and eastern hemlock trees during an All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-82

  Baird, Richard E ^a   Watson, Clarence E ^b   Woolfolk, Sandra ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ABIES FRASERI; CONIUM; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; TRICHODERMA; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS;

EID: 34247616029     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2007)6[67:MFBOHA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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