Ecology of Protozoa: The Biology of Free-living Phagotropic Protists
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1. Verfasser: Fenchel, Tom 1940- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1987
Schriftenreihe:Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience
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Beschreibung:This book is written for ecologists and protozoologists. Ecologists who study environments and biotic communities in which protozoa are imponant should find this book especially useful. During the last decade it has become clear that protozoa play important roles in natural ecosystems, but few ecologists have a feeling for the functional properties and the diversity of these organisms. Protozoa pose or exemplify many general problems of population and community ecology, and of evolutionary biology. In most respects the general ecological propenies of protozoa are not fundamentally different from those of larger organisms; yet, due to their small size, short generation times, and ubiquitous occurrence they often present ecological phenomena in a new and different light. To this should be added that protozoa are well-suited for experimental work. Despite these advantages, the study of protozoa has played a relatively modest role in the development of ecology and evolutionary biology, primarily, I believe, because most ecologists are unfamiliar with these organisms. I hope this book will attract more attention to these favorable characteristics of protozoa. I also hope that this book may make protozoologists aware of new aspects of their pet organisms. For a long time (that is, until the fundamental distinction between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells was recognized) protozoa were believed to represent the simplest form of life. They were therefore extensively used for the experimental study of basic questions of cell biology
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (X, 197 S.)
ISBN:9783662259818
9780910239066
ISSN:1432-0061
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-25981-8

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