Meta-analyses of environmental sequence data identify anoxia and salinity as parameters shaping ciliate communities

Systematics and Biodiversity

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 277-288

  Forster, Dominik ^a   Behnke, Anke ^a   Stoeck, Thorsten ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84869128525     PISSN: 14772000     EISSN: 14780933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2012.706239     Document Type: Article

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