Species diversity and genetic variation of terrestrial lichens and bryophytes in a boreal jack pine forest of central Canada

Bryologist

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 594-606

  Kotelko, Rhonda ^a   Doering, Matthew ^a   Piercey Normore, Michele D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Cladonia arbuscula; ISSR; ITS rDNA; Manitoba; Nuclear rDNA intron; Pleurozium schreberi; Population structure; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CLADONIA ARBUSCULA; FUNGI; PINUS BANKSIANA; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI;

EID: 58149229233     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-111.4.594     Document Type: Article

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