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Protist diversity and distribution: some basic considerations
2008-02-01
Abstract excerpt
This essay discusses protist species number and geographic distribution, both heavily influenced by undersampling and human introductions. The features of the ubiquity model and the moderate endemicity model are compared. I recognize five main flaws of the ubiquity model, viz., the ignorance of the extraordinary possibilities protists have to speciate due to their short generation time and the likelihood that many...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9e8a3b2b-8702-5b2e-9d93-8b530d3c5176
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10531-007-9248-5