The Potential Influence of Short-term Environmental Variability on the Composition of Testate Amoeba Communities in Sphagnum Peatlands

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-93

  Sullivan, Maura E ^a   Booth, Robert K ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SPHAGNOPSIDA; WETLAND;

AMOEBA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; SPHAGNOPSIDA; WETLANDS;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARCELLA DISCOIDES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; BULLINULARIA INDICA; DIFFLUGIA PULEX; HYALOSPHENIA; PROTOZOA; SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79960577540     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9875-y     Document Type: Article

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