Contrasting species-environment relationships in communities of testate amoebae, bryophytes and vascular plants along the fen-bog gradient

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 499-510

  Lamentowicz, Mariusz ^a,b,c,d   Lamentowicz, Łukasz ^a   van der Knaap, Willem O ^e   Gabka, Maciej ^a   Mitchell, Edward A D ^b,c,d  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

FRESH WATER;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOSS; PH; PLANT; SWITZERLAND; WETLAND;

AMOEBA; BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTA; FRESH WATER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; PLANTS; SWITZERLAND; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WETLANDS;

EID: 77952512784     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-009-9617-6     Document Type: Article

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