Ciliate biogeography in Antarctic and Arctic freshwater ecosystems: endemism or global distribution of species?

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Petz, Wolfgang, Valbonesi, Alessandro, Schiftner, Uwe, Quesada, Antonio, Ellis-Evans, J. Cynan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell 2007
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Antarctic; Arctic; Livingston Island; South Shetland Islands; Svalbard; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1192/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00259.x

Ciliate diversity was investigated in situ in freshwater ecosystems of the maritime (South Shetland Islands, mainly Livingston Island, 63°S) and continental Antarctic (Victoria Land, 75°S), and the High Arctic (Svalbard, 79°N). In total, 334 species from 117 genera were identified in both polar regi...