Soil ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from evergreen rain forests of Australia, South America and Costa Rica: Diversity and description of new species

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 317-339

  Foissner, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecophysiology; Evergreen rain forests; Methodology; Soil protozoa

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PROTOZOA; RAINFOREST; SOIL FAUNA;

AUSTRALIA; COSTA RICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030727006     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003740050322     Document Type: Review

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