Fungi in subterranean environments

Fungi in Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 377-403

  Reitner, Joachim ^a   Schumann, Gabriela ^a   Pedersen, Karsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511550522.017     Document Type: Chapter

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