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Species accumulation curves and incidence-based species richness estimators to appraise the diversity of cultivable yeasts from beech forest soils.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Yurkov Andrey M, Kemler Martin, Begerow Dominik
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Yeast-like fungi inhabit soils throughout all climatic zones in a great abundance. While recent estimations predicted a plethora of prokaryotic taxa in one gram of soil, similar data are lacking for fungi, especially yeasts. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We assessed the diversity of soil yeasts in different forests of central Germany using cultivation-based techniques with subsequent identification...
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