Selected ecological characteristics of ciliate communities (Protozoa, Ciliophora) in decaying wood mass in the Malé Karpaty Mountains

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages 37-50

  Bartošová, Pavla ^a   Tirjaková, Eva ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Communities; Decay; Mal Karpaty Mountains; Wood mass

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WOOD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MALE KARPATY; SLOVAKIA;

CILIOPHORA; COLPODA; COLPODIDA; CONIFERALES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 36248981508     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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