Repeated sampling reveals differential variability in measures of species richness and community composition in planktonic protists

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 661-666

  Dolan, John R ^a   Stoeck, Thorsten ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTISTA; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 84856055612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00250.x     Document Type: Article

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