Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Foissner, W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hawksworth, David L. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Σειρά: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation, 8
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Biodiversity.; Conservation biology.; Microbiology.; Life Sciences.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.

There is still a widespread belief that microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, protists, and small multicellulars, have a cosmopolitan distribution due to a presumed easy dispersal by wind and water. However, the contributions collected in this book – ranging from protists to rotifers and m...

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• Protist diversity and distribution: some basic considerations
• Distribution and diversity of aquatic protists: an evolutionary and ecological perspective
• “Missing” protists: a molecular prospective
• Diversity, dispersal and biogeography of bryophytes (mosses)
• Myxomycete diversity and distribution from the fossil record to the present
• Diversity and endemism in Rotifera: a review, and Keratella Bory de St Vincent
• Diversity and geographic distribution of benthic foraminifera: a molecular perspective
• Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae
• Diversity and geographic distribution of ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora)
• The “Tetrahymena pyriformis” complex of cryptic species
• Diversity and geographic distribution of desmids and other coccoid green algae
• The diversity and distribution of diatoms: from cosmopolitanism to narrow endemism
• Dinoflagellate diversity and distribution
• Dispersal and biogeography of silica-scaled chrysophytes
• Conservation of protists: is it needed at all?.