The Biggest Organism on Earth

Опубликовано 17 сентября 2013, 18:07

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REFERENCES
Pando
The World's Largest Organism in Trouble. Week of Feb 1 2013. Living on Earth.
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Grant, M. & Mitton, J. 2010. Case Study: The Glorious, Golden, and Gigantic Quaking Aspen. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):40
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Humongous fungus
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Casselman, A. Oct. 4 2007. Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus. Scientific American.
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Ferguson, BA. et al. 2003. Coarse-scale population structure of pathogenic Armillaria species in a mixed-conifer forest in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:612-623, 10.1139/x03-065.
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Methods for estimating weight of fungi
Smith, M., Bruhn, J., and Anderson, J. 1992. The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356: 428-431.
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Tallest tree
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Howell, E. April 15, 2013. What is the World's Tallest Tree? Livescience.
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