Planktonic ciliates of the North American Great Lakes: Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario

Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 345-354

  Munawar, Mohiuddin ^a   Lynn, Denis H ^a  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ciliophora; Exotics; Protozoa; Spatial; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ASKENASIA; BALANION; CILIOPHORA; DREISSENA POLYMORPHA; HALTERIA; PROTOZOA; STROBILIDIUM; STROMBIDIUM; UROTRICHA;

EID: 0036747488     PISSN: 14634988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14634980290032027     Document Type: Article

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