Ciliated protozoan colonization of substrates from Weeks Bay, Alabama

Gulf of Mexico Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-85

  Landers, Stephen C ^a   Phipps, Scott W ^b  

^a TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATE; BACTERIUM; CILIATE; COLONIZATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; PROTOZOAN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALABAMA; UNITED STATES; WEEKS BAY;

VORTICELLA;

EID: 0242594702     PISSN: 1087688X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18785/goms.2101.07     Document Type: Article

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