Species richness and distribution patterns of leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi in a temperate forest canopy

Mycological Progress

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 201-212

  Unterseher, Martin ^a   Reiher, Almut ^b   Finstermeier, Knut ^c   Otto, Peter ^b   Morawetz, Wilfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACER; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; APIOGNOMONIA ERRABUNDA; ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DIPLODINA; FUNGI; GYMNOCEPHALUS; MALVACEAE; PHOMA; QUERCUS ROBUR; SORDARIA FIMICOLA; TILIA CORDATA;

EID: 34548647137     PISSN: 1617416X     EISSN: 18618952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11557-007-0541-1     Document Type: Article

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