Opportunities and challenges in deriving phytoplankton diversity measures from individual trait-based data obtained by scanning flow-cytometry

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Fontana, Simone ^a   Jokela, Jukka ^b   Pomati, Francesco ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity indices; Ecosystem functioning; Environmental change; Functional diversity; Individual level data; Scanning flow cytometry; Traits

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; REVIEW;

EID: 84905374973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00324     Document Type: Review

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