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Ecology of Protozoa - The Biology of Free-Living Phagotropic Protists (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1987 ed.)
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Ecology of Protozoa - The Biology of Free-Living Phagotropic Protists (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1987 ed.)
Series: Brock Springer Contemporary Bioscience
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This book is written for ecologists and protozoologists. Ecologists
who study environments and biotic communities in which protozoa are
im- ponant should find this book especially useful. During the last
decade it has become clear that protozoa play important roles in
natural eco- systems, but few ecologists have a feeling for the
functional properties and the diversity of these organisms.
Protozoa pose or exemplify many general problems of population and
community ecology, and of evo- lutionary biology. In most respects
the general ecological propenies of protozoa are not fundamentally
different from those of larger organisms; yet, due to their small
size, short generation times, and ubiquitous oc- currence they
often present ecological phenomena in a new and dif- ferent light.
To this should be added that protozoa are well-suited for
experimental work. Despite these advantages, the study of protozoa
has played a relatively modest role in the development of ecology
and ev- olutionary biology, primarily, I believe, because most
ecologists are unfamiliar with these organisms. I hope this book
will attract more attention to these favorable characteristics of
protozoa. I also hope that this book may make protozoologists aware
of new aspects of their pet organisms. For a long time (that is,
until the fun- damental distinction between prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells was rec- ognized) protozoa were believed to
represent the simplest form of life. They were therefore
extensively used for the experimental study of basic questions of
cell biology.
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