Fungal Growth and Biomass Development is Boosted by Plants in Snow-Covered Soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 79-90

  Kuhnert, Regina ^a   Oberkofler, Irmgard ^a   Peintner, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 84862487559     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-0001-y     Document Type: Article

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