Leaf decomposition in a mountain stream in the sultanate of Oman

International Review of Hydrobiology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-28

  Al Riyami, Maha ^a   Victor, Reginald ^a   Seena, Sahadevan ^b   Elshafie, Abdulkadir E ^a   Bärlocher, Felix ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic hyphomycetes; Desert stream; Tropics; Walnut

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); LEACHING; TROPICS;

AQUATIC HYPHOMYCETES; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; COARSE MESHES; CONCENTRATION OF; DESERT STREAM; EXPONENTIAL DECAY RATES; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; INITIAL MASS; LEAF FALLS; LITTER BAGS; MOUNTAIN STREAMS; PHOMA SP; SULTANATE OF OMAN; WALNUT; WATER COLUMNS;

LANDFORMS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEGRADATION; DESERT; EPIPHYTE; ERGOSTEROL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; INVERTEBRATE; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN STREAM; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

ALTERNARIA; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; HYPHOMYCETES; INVERTEBRATA; JUGLANS; JUGLANS REGIA; PHOMA; TETRACLADIUM; TETRACLADIUM APIENSE;

EID: 63849177506     PISSN: 14342944     EISSN: 15222632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iroh.200811085     Document Type: Article

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