Colonization and structure of natural and artificial microhabitats (stone and slide surfaces, interstitial spaces between algal and wool filaments, as well as in sediments and foamed plastic) in the Ilm, a small stream of the middle mountain region (Thuringia, Germany)

Limnologica

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 385-391

  Schönborn, Wilfried ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Cladophora; Colonization; Ilm stream; Meiobenthos; Micro ; Microhabitats; Natural and artificial interstitials; Testacea

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; CLADOPHORA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; OVIS ARIES; TESTACEALOBOSIA;

COLONIZATION; FOAMED PLASTIC; GREEN ALGA; MICROFAUNA; SEDIMENT; WOOL FILAMENT;

GERMANY, THURINGIA, ILM STREAM;

EID: 0030319539     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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