Ciliates and their picophytoplankton-feeding activity in a high-altitude warm-monomictic saline lake

European Journal of Protistology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-25

  Peštová, Dana ^a,c   Macek, Miroslav ^a,b   Elena Martínez Pérez, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Feeding rates; Lake ecology; Phytoplankton; Picocyanobacteria; Tropical saline lake

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLIDIUM GLAUCOMA; CYCLOTELLA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES DAIDALEOS; GLAUCOMA (CILIATE); HALTERIA GRANDINELLA; NODULARIA; PERITRICHIA (CILIATES); SCUTICOCILIATIA; SPIROTRICHEA; URONEMA NIGRICANS; VORTICELLA; VORTICELLIDAE;

EID: 38849149758     PISSN: 09324739     EISSN: 16180429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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