| yeasts and coliform bacteria of water accumulated in bromeliads of mangrove and sand dune ecosystems of southeast brazil. | yeasts and coliform bacteria were isolated from water that accumulated in the central cups and adjacent leaf axilae of two bromeliads, neoregelia cruenta of a coastal sand dune and quesnelia quesneliana of a mangrove ecosystem near the city of rio de janeiro, brazil. the mean total coliform counts were above 10,000 per 100 ml for waters of both plants, but the mean fecal coliform counts were only 74 per 100 ml for q. quesneliana and mostly undetected in water from n. cruenta. of 90 fecal colifor ... | 1993 | 8261333 |