Extracellular enzymes and soft rot decay: Are ascomycetes important degraders in fresh water

Fungal Diversity

Volumn 31, Issue , 2008, Pages 135-146

  Simonis, J L ^a,b   Raja, H A ^a   Shearer, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Allochthonous carbon; Ecosystem processes; Freshwater fungi; Functional ecology; Nutrient cycling; Species distributions; Wood decay

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 53549129355     PISSN: 15602745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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