Do microbes have macroecology? Large-scale patterns in the diversity and distribution of marine benthic ciliates

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-172

  Azovsky, Andrey ^a   Mazei, Yuri ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b PENZA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Distribution; Diversity; Latitudinal gradients; Marine; Rapoport's rule

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CILIATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MACROECOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROORGANISM; PROTIST; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84872127373     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00776.x     Document Type: Article

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