Diatom flora in subterranean ecosystems: a review
In scarcity of light and primary producers, subterranean ecosystems are generally extremely oligotrophic habitats, receiving poor supplies of degradable organic matter from the surface. Human direct impacts on cave ecosystems mainly derive from intensive tourism and recreational caving, causing impo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of South Florida Libraries
2014-09-01
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Series: | International Journal of Speleology |
Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol43/iss3/1/ |