Biodiversity of Klebsormidium (Streptophyta) from alpine biological soil crusts (Alps, Tyrol, Austria, and Italy)

Journal of Phycology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 750-767

  Mikhailyuk, Tatiana ^a   Glaser, Karin ^b   Holzinger, Andreas ^c   Karsten, Ulf ^b  

^a M G KHOLODNY INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Distribution; Ecology; Epitypification; Klebsormidium; Molecular phylogeny; Morphological characters; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; KLEBSORMIDIUM; KLEBSORMIDIUM DISSECTUM; KLEBSORMIDIUM FLACCIDUM; KLEBSORMIDIUM FLUITANS; KLEBSORMIDIUM NITENS; KLEBSORMIDIUM SUBTILE; STREPTOPHYTA;

EID: 84938904343     PISSN: 00223646     EISSN: 15298817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jpy.12316     Document Type: Article

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