Dispersal of protists: The role of cysts and human introductions

Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms is Everything Small Everywhere?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-87

  Foissner, Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511974878.006     Document Type: Chapter

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