Ectomycota associated with hibernating bats in eastern canadian caves prior to the emergence of white-nose syndrome

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-130

  Vanderwolf, Karen J ^a,b   McAlpine, Donald F ^a   Malloch, David ^a   Forbes, Graham J ^c  

^a NEW BRUNSWICK MUSEUM   (Canada)

^b Canadian Wildlife Federation   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADOSPORIUM; COPROPHILOUS; DORATOMYCES STEMONITIS; FUNGI; GEOMYCES; GEOMYCES PANNORUM; LEUCONEUROSPORA; MORTIERELLA; MUCOR; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM SOLITUM; TRICHOSPORON (UNCLASSIFIED); TRICHOSPORON DULCITUM;

EID: 84876585408     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/045.020.0109     Document Type: Article

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