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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jens Boenigk, Sabina Wodniok, Christina Bock, Daniela Beisser, Christopher Hempel, Lars Grossmann, Anja Lange, Manfred Jensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-01-01
Series:Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Subjects:
mic
Online Access:https://mbmg.pensoft.net/article/21519/