Biodiversity at the microbial level: The number of free-living ciliates in the biosphere

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-237

  Flnlay, B J ^a   Corliss, J O ^b   Esteban, G ^a   Fenchel, T ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Copenhagen ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PROTOZOA; SPECIES CONCEPT;

CILIATA;

EID: 0030431851     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/419370     Document Type: Article

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