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Fungi Isolated From Niedźwiedzia Cave In Kletno (Lower Silesia, Poland), Rafał Ogórek, Agnieszka Lejman, Krzysztof Matkowski
Fungi Isolated From Niedźwiedzia Cave In Kletno (Lower Silesia, Poland), Rafał Ogórek, Agnieszka Lejman, Krzysztof Matkowski
International Journal of Speleology
Niedźwiedzia Cave is the most beautiful cave in Poland, discovered in a block of Cambrian marbles. It is the most important part of the reserve established in 1977. The cave is located within the Kłodzko Valley, in Śnieżnik Mt. Massif, in Kleśnica Stream Valley and was discovered in 1966 while working in a quarry. The study aimed at first mycological evaluation of the air and the rocks in Niedźwiedzia Cave. Nine species of filamentous fungi and a yeast species were isolated from the air sampled in the cave, whereas from the rocks - nine species of filamentous fungi and two …