Geographic distance and mountain ranges structure freshwater protist communities on a European scalе
Protists influence ecosystems by modulating microbial population size, diversity, metabolic outputs and gene flow. In this study we used eukaryotic ribosomal amplicon diversity from 218 European freshwater lakes sampled in August 2012 to assess the effect of mountain ranges as biogeographic barri...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pensoft Publishers
2018-01-01
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Series: | Metabarcoding and Metagenomics |
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Online Access: | https://mbmg.pensoft.net/article/21519/ |