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Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms : Is Everything Small Everywhere?.
Synthesises discussion surrounding the 'everything is everywhere' hypothesis, bringing together viewpoints of leading experts in taxonomy, ecology and biogeography.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Systematics Association special volume.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I: Theoretical framework; 1 Why biogeography of microorganisms?; 2 Historical biogeography, microbial endemism and the role of classification: everything is endemic; Part II: Prokaryotes; 3 Biogeography of prokaryotes; 4 Thermophilic bacteria in cool soils: metabolic activity and mechanisms of dispersal; Part III: Unicellular eukaryotes; 5 Dispersal of protists: the role of cysts and human introductions; 6 Everything is everywhere: a twenty-first century de-/reconstruction with respect to protists.
- 7 Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing microbial biogeography8 Everything is not everywhere: the distribution of cactophilic yeast; Part IV: Pluricellular eukaryotes; 9 Coalescent analyses reveal contrasting patterns of intercontinental gene flow in arctic-alpine and boreal-temperate fungi; 10 Biogeography and phylogeography of lichen fungi and their photobionts; 11 Biogeography of mosses and allies: does size matter?; 12 Dispersal limitation or habitat quality
- what shapes the distribution ranges of ferns?
- 13 Ubiquity of microscopic animals? Evidence from the morphological approach in species identification14 Molecular approach to micrometazoans. Are they here, there and everywhere?; Part V: Processes; 15 Microbes as a test of biogeographic principles; 16 A metacommunity perspective on the phylo-and biogeography of small organisms; 17 Geographic variation in the diversity of microbial communities: research directions and prospects for experimental biogeography; Index.