Four new species of Coenogonium (Ascomycota: Ostropales) from vulnerable forest ecosystems in Puerto Rico

Bryologist

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 373-381

  Mercado Díaz, Joel A ^a   Gould, William A ^a   González, Grizelle ^a   Lücking, Robert ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity hotspots; Endemism; Island biota

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900850247     PISSN: 00072745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1639/0007-2745-116.4.373     Document Type: Article

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