This book emphasises the important role that protozoa play in many natural ecosystems. To shed new light on their individual adaptive skills, the respective cha

This book is written for ecologists and protozoologists. Ecologists who study environments and biotic communities in which protozoa are im portant should find t

The protozoa are an eclectic assemblage of organisms encompassing a wide range of single-celled and multiple-celled colonial organisms lacking tissue organiza t

distances between groups of ciliates were as vast as significant hurdles to obtain copyright permissions the genetic distances between plants and animals for th

Protozoa are active components of the soil microfauna. For example, they may stimulate bacterial metabolism and some fungal metabolites can lyse protozoa. They