Airborne microeukaryote colonists in experimental water containers: Diversity, succession, life histories and established food webs

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-152

  Genitsaris, Savvas ^a   Moustaka Gouni, Maria ^a   Kormas, Konstantinos A ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Airborne microeukaryotes; Colonization; Diversity; Food w.eb.; Haematococcus; Pattersoniella

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLORELLA (CHLORELLALES); CHLORELLA (PRASIOLALES); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED CHLOROPHYCEAE); CHLORELLA (UNCLASSIFIED TREBOUXIOPHYCEAE); CHLOROPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; HAEMATOCOCCUS; HAEMATOCOCCUS LACUSTRIS; PATTERSONIELLA; PATTERSONIELLA VITIPHILA; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS OBLIQUUS; THESSALONIKI;

EID: 79956335027     PISSN: 09483055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/ame01463     Document Type: Article

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