A paradox of the ciliates? High ciliate diversity in a resource-poor environment

Marine Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 483-494

  Claessens, Monika ^a   Wickham, Stephen A ^a   Post, Anton F ^b   Reuter, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHLOROPHYLL; CILIATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRAZING; IMMIGRATION; NICHE OVERLAP; NICHE PARTITIONING; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 77649340324     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-009-1334-7     Document Type: Article

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