Seasonal and spatial dynamics of a ciliate assemblage in a warm-monomictic Lake Alchichica (Puebla, Mexico)

Hidrobiologica

Volumn 18, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 25-35

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

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anoxic; Athalassohaline lake; Ciliates

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CAENOMORPHA SP.; CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYCLIDIUM GLAUCOMA; CYCLOTELLA; EUPLOTES; EUPLOTES DAIDALEOS; HALTERIA GRANDINELLA; HAPTORIDA; NODULARIA; OLIGOHYMENOPHOREA; PELAGOTHRIX; PERITRICHIA (CILIATES); PHIALINA; RHABDOSTYLA; SCUTICOCILIATIA; SPIROTRICHEA; URONEMA NIGRICANS;

EID: 73449122103     PISSN: 01888897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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