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Original Articles

Assessment of Abundance and Species Composition of Filamentous Fungi in the Underground Rzeczka Complex in Sowie Mountains (Lower Silesia, Poland)

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Pages 900-906 | Received 01 Dec 2013, Accepted 01 Mar 2014, Published online: 10 Oct 2014

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