Anthropogenic influences on the diversity of fungi isolated from caves in Kentucky and Tennessee

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-86

  Shapiro, Julie ^a   Pringle, Anne ^b  

^a HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAVE; FUNGUS; ISOLATED POPULATION; LOCAL ECONOMY; MORPHOLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

KENTUCKY; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

BIONECTRIA; CADOPHORA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; HYPOCREA; MORTIERELLA; PARACONIOTHYRIUM; PENICILLIUM; PODOSPORA;

EID: 72849151128     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-163.1.76     Document Type: Article

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