Impact of hydrodynamic disturbance on the generation times of four species of marine naked amoebae
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2006
Abstract
Four species of gymnamoebae isolated from a sandy shore were subjected to hydrodynamic disturbance within microcosms. Increasing the level of disturbance increased the generation times of all four isolates. Generation times of a small Platyamoeba sp. and a limax amoeba were least affected by increasing disturbance. The greatest increase in generation times was observed in populations of two large (>15 μm) Mayorella sp. and Vannella sp. This study shows that hydrodynamic disturbance may be an important community structuring force within natural marine amoebae communities.
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- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 39 - 42
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- 2006 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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