What's on your boots: An investigation into the role we play in protist dispersal

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 998-1003

  Perrigo, Allison L ^a   Romeralo, Maria ^a   Baldauf, Sandra L ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic biogeography; Dictyostelium; Dispersal vectors; Global dispersal; Protist distribution; Social amoebae; Terrestrial microorganisms

Indexed keywords

ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM MINUTUM; DICTYOSTELIUM SPHAEROCEPHALUM; POLYSPHONDYLIUM; PROTISTA;

EID: 84859850251     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02691.x     Document Type: Letter

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