Phorophyte specificity and environmental parameters versus stochasticity as determinants for species composition of corticolous crustose lichen communities in the Atlantic rain forest of northeastern Brazil

Mycological Progress

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 117-136

  Cáceres, Marcela E S ^a,b,c   Lücking, Robert ^c   Rambold, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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EID: 34548630442     PISSN: 1617416X     EISSN: 18618952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11557-007-0532-2     Document Type: Article

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