Composition and distribution of free-living freshwater nematodes: Global and local perspectives

Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 46-76

  Traunspurger, W ^a   Michiels, I C ^a   Abebe, Eyualem ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

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