Biogeography of microscopic organisms : is everything small everywhere? By [edited by] Diego Fontaneto
2011 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0521766702 | PDF | 5 MB
2011 | 388 Pages | ISBN: 0521766702 | PDF | 5 MB
Why biogeography of microorganisms? / Diego Fontaneto and Juliet Brodie -- Historical biogeography, microbial endemism and the role of classification: everything is endemic / David M. Williams -- Biogeography of prokaryotes / Donnabella C. Lacap, Maggie C.Y. Lau and Stephen B. Pointing -- Thermophilic bacteria in cool soils: metabolic activity and mechanisms or dispersal / Roger Marchant, Ibrahim M. Banat and Andrea Franzetti -- Dispersal of protists: the role of cysts and human introductions / Wilhelm Foissner -- Everything is everywhere: a twenty-first century de-/reconstruction with respect to protists / David Bass and Jens Boenigk -- Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing microbial biogeography / Thierry J. Heger, Enrique Lara and Edward A.D. Mitchell -- Everything is not everywhere: the distribution of cactophilic yeast / Philip F. Ganter -- Coalescent analyses reveal contrasting patterns of intercontinental gene flow in arctic-alpine and boreal-temperate fungi / József Geml -- Biogeography and phylogeography of lichen fungi and their photoblonts / Silke Werth -- Biogeography of mosses and allies: does size matter? / Nagore G. Medina, Isabel Draper and Francisco Lara -- Dispersal limitations of habitat quality: what shapes the distribution ranges of ferns? / Hanno Schaefer -- Ubiquity of microscopic animals? Evidence from the morphological approach in species identification / Tom Artois...[et al.] -- Molecular approach to micrometazoans. Are they here, there and everywhere? / Noemi Guil -- Microbes as a test of biogeographic principles / David G. Jenkins, Kim A. Medley and Rima B. Franklin -- A metacommunity perspective on the phylo- and biogeography of small organisms / Luc de Meester -- Geographic variation in the diversity of microbial communities: research directions and prospects for experimental biogeography / Joaquin Hortal