Big answers from small worlds: A user's guide for protist microcosms as a model system in ecology and evolution

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 218-231

  Altermatt, Florian ^a,b   Fronhofer, Emanuel A ^a   Garnier, Aurélie ^b   Giometto, Andrea ^a,c   Hammes, Frederik ^a   Klecka, Jan ^a,d   Legrand, Delphine ^e   Mächler, Elvira ^a   Massie, Thomas M ^b   Pennekamp, Frank ^b   Plebani, Marco ^b   Pontarp, Mikael ^b   Schtickzelle, Nicolas ^e   Thuillier, Virginie ^e   Petchey, Owen L ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e EARTH AND LIFE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ciliates; Comparability; Ecological theory; Experimental ecology; Methods; Protists; Protocols; Protozoa; Standardization

Indexed keywords

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84922403637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12312     Document Type: Review

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