Thecamoebian communities as proxies of seasonality in Lake Sadatal in the Ganga-Yamuna Plains of North India

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Farooqui, Anjum ^a   Kumar, Arun ^b,c   Swindles, Graeme T ^d  

^a BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acid resistant thecamoebians; Ganga Yamuna Plains; India; Lake sediments; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PROTIST; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

GANGES RIVER;

AMPHITREMA; CENTROPYXIDAE; DIFFLUGIA OBLONGA; LEMNA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84874725802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/200     Document Type: Article

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