Is microbial diversity fundamentally different from biodiversity of larger animals and plants?

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 486-490

  Fenchel, Tom ^a   Finlay, Bland J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmopolitan distribution; Local and global species size distributions; Protists

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 0842302424     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0932-4739-00025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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