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Study of the Effect of Different Techniques on Diversity of Freshwater Hyphomycetes in the River Nile (Upper Egypt)

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Four different techniques were applied, lead mapping ofEucalptus rostrata; randomly leaf sampling; Milliporefiltration; spores in foam, for the study of aquatic hyphomycetscommunities in the River Nile. Triscelophorus monosporus,Anguilospora longissima, Flagellospora curvula andTetracladium marchalianum were the dominant species inall the techniques used. Aquatic hyphomycetes diversity washigh by using leaf mapping (23 species) and randomly leafsampling (30 species) but it was low by using Milliporefiltration (11 species) and spores in foam (8 species) techniques.

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Abdel-Raheem, A.M. Study of the Effect of Different Techniques on Diversity of Freshwater Hyphomycetes in the River Nile (Upper Egypt). Mycopathologia 157, 59–72 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MYCO.0000012219.93567.37

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