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ECOLOGY OF PROTOZOA
THE BIOLOGY OF FREE-LIVING PHAGOTROPHIC PROTISTS |
| By: |
Tom Fenchel |
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Paperback |
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£72.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3662068192 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783662068199 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1986 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: |
Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience |
| Pages: |
197 |
| Synopsis: |
This book is written for ecologists and protozoologists. Ecologists who study environments and biotic communities in which protozoa are im- portant should find this book especially useful. During the last decade it has become clear that protozoa play important roles in natural eco- systems, 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 evo- lutionary biology. In most respects the general ecological properties of protozoa are not fundamentally different from those of larger organisms; yet, due to their small size, short generation times, and ubiquitous oc- currence they often present ecological phenomena in a new and dif- ferent 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 ev- olutionary 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 fun- damental distinction between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells was rec- ognized) 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. |
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96 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K |
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Returnable |
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