Changes in dominance among species in aquatic hyphomycete assemblages do not affect litter decomposition rates

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Ferreira, Verónica ^a   Chauvet, Eric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Institut National Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic fungi; Biodiversity; Dominance; Evenness; Fungal activity; Litter decomposition; Species identity

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; FUNGI; ULA;

EID: 84859227996     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame01556     Document Type: Article

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