Fungal virulence at the time of the end-Permian biosphere crisis?

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 883-886

  Visscher, Henk ^a   Sephton, Mark A ^b   Looy, Cindy V ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; ECOLOGICAL CRISIS; END-PERMIAN; FILAMENTOUS FUNGI; FILAMENTOUS ORGANISMS; FOREST DECLINE; MICROFOSSILS; PERMIAN; PERMIAN PERIOD; PLANT PATHOGEN;

ECOLOGY;

FUNGI;

BIOSPHERE; FUNGUS; MICROFOSSIL; PALYNOMORPH; PATHOGEN; PERMIAN; VIRULENCE;

ALGAE; FUNGI; RHIZOCTONIA;

EID: 80053994521     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32178.1     Document Type: Article

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