Diversity and Ecology of Ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) Living in the Bark and Decaying Wood Mass in Slovakia

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 173-187

  Bartošová, Pavla ^a   Tirjaková, Eva ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

C P ratio; Ciliates; Communities; Decaying wood mass; Diversity; Slovakia; Terrestrial habitat

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLATA; CILIOPHORA; COLPODIDA; PERITRICHIA (CILIATES); PROSTOMATIDA; SPIROTRICHEA; SUCTORIA;

EID: 67650095195     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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