The biological soil crusts of the San Nicolas Island: Enigmatic algae from a geographically isolated ecosystem

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-436

  Flechtner, Valerie R ^a   Johansen, Jeffrey R ^a   Belnap, Jayne ^b  

^a JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cyanobacteria; Desert; Microalgae; Microbiotic crusts; San Nicolas Island; Soil algae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; APHANOTHECE; CHLORELLA VULGARIS; CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOSARCINA; EUKARYOTA; EUSTIGMATOS MAGNUS; HANTZSCHIA AMPHIOXYS; LUTICOLA MUTICA; MICROCHAETE; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; MYRMECIA ASTIGMATICA; MYRMECIA BIATORELLAE; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PALUDOSUM; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; PALMELLOPSIS; PSEUDOTETRACYSTIS; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS DESERTICOLA; TOLYPOTHRIX DISTORTA;

EID: 58149486760     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904-68.4.405     Document Type: Article

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