Elevated aluminium concentration in acidified headwater streams lowers aquatic hyphomycete diversity and impairs leaf-litter breakdown

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 260-269

  Baudoin, J M ^a   Guerold F ^a   Felten, V ^a   Chauvet, E ^b   Wagner, P ^a   Rousselle, P ^a  

^a Faculté des Sciences et Technologies   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM;

ARTICLE; BEECH; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DEUTEROMYCETES; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER;

ALUMINUM; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FAGUS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PLANT LEAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVERS;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; HYPHOMYCETES;

EID: 46149114193     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-007-9344-9     Document Type: Article

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