Data from: Polar lakes may act as ecological islands to aquatic protists ...

• Main Authors: Rengefors, Karin, Logares, Ramiro, Laybourn-Parry, Johanna
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2012
• Subjects: Scrippsiella hangoei; Protists; Population ecology; Highway Lake; Lake Vereteno; Vereteno; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87js01tv; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.87js01tv

A fundamental question in ecology is whether microorganisms follow the same patterns as multicellular organisms when it comes to population structure and levels of genetic diversity. Enormous population sizes, predominately asexual reproduction, and presumably high dispersal due to small body size c...