Richness and diversity in dust stormborne biomes at the southeast mediterranean

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Katra, Itzhak ^a   Arotsker, Luba ^a   Krasnov, Helena ^a   Zaritsky, Arieh ^a   Kushmaro, Ariel ^a,b   Ben Dov, Eitan ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c ACHVA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DUST; ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYOPHYTA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS; ISRAEL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DUST; ECOSYSTEM; EMBRYOPHYTA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGI; ISRAEL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84902324934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05265     Document Type: Article

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