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Inventory of the taxonomical composition of the plankton ciliates in the Curonian Lagoon (SE Baltic Sea)

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies
Volume 40 (2011): Issue 4 (December 2011)
By: Evelina Grinienė,  Stasė Mažeikaitė and  Zita Gasiūnaitė  
Open Access
|Oct 2011

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13545-011-0045-0 | Journal eISSN: 1897-3191 | Journal ISSN: 1730-413X
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Keywords:
Ciliates,
species diversity,
salinity,
Curonian Lagoon
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