A model of biocomplexity and its application to the analysis of some terrestrial and marsh eukaryotic microbial communities with an emphasis on amoeboid protists

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-91

  Anderson, O Roger ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Community structure; Comparative ecology; Euclidean geometric models; Freshwater marsh communities; Morphospecies abundance and diversity; Salt marsh communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0038477037     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00238.x     Document Type: Article

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