Relationships of fungal spore concentrations in the air and meteorological factors

Fungal Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 130-134

  Pakpour, Sepideh ^a   Li, De Wei ^b   Klironomos, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Air; Climate change; Fungi; Prediction; Spore concentration

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 84919483257     PISSN: 17545048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.09.008     Document Type: Article

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