Biodiversity hanging by a thread: The importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 397-400

  Snaddon, Jake L ^a,b,c   Turner, Edgar C ^a,d   Fayle, Tom M ^a,c,d,e   Khen, Chey V ^f   Eggleton, Paul ^c   Foster, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Biodiversity; Canopy; Fungi; Leaf litter; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; FUNGI;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MALAYSIA; MARASMIUS; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MALAYSIA; MARASMIUS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84865961060     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115     Document Type: Article

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