Freshwater nematodes in environmental science

Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 144-162

  Höss, Sebastian ^a   Traunspurger, Walter ^b   Zullini, Aldo ^c  

^a ECOSSA   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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