Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution

1. Protist diversity and distribution: some basic considerations
Wilhelm Foissner

2. Distribution and diversity of aquatic protists: an evolutionary and ecological perspective
Thomas Weisse

3. “Missing” protists: a molecular prospective
Slava Epstein, Purificación López-García

4. Diversity, dispersal and biogeography of bryophytes (mosses)
Jan-Peter Frahm

5. Myxomycete diversity and distribution from the fossil record to the present
Steven L. Stephenson, Martin Schnittler, Yuri K. Novozhilov

6. Diversity and endemism in Rotifera: a review, and Keratella Bory de St Vincent
Hendrik Segers, Willem H. Smet

7. Diversity and geographic distribution of benthic foraminifera: a molecular perspective
Jan Pawlowski, Maria Holzmann

8. Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae
Humphrey Graham Smith, Anatoly Bobrov, Enrique Lara

9. Diversity and geographic distribution of ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora)
Wilhelm Foissner, Anne Chao, Laura A. Katz

10. The “Tetrahymena pyriformis” complex of cryptic species
Ellen M. Simon, David L. Nanney, F. Paul Doerder

11. Diversity and geographic distribution of desmids and other coccoid green algae
Peter F. M. Coesel, Lothar Krienitz

12. The diversity and distribution of diatoms: from cosmopolitanism to narrow endemism
Pieter Vanormelingen, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman

13. Dinoflagellate diversity and distribution
F. J. R. Taylor, Mona Hoppenrath, Juan F. Saldarriaga

14. Dispersal and biogeography of silica-scaled chrysophytes
Jørgen Kristiansen

15. Conservation of protists: is it needed at all?
F. P. D. Cotterill, Khaled Al-Rasheid, Wilhelm Foissner

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Biodiversity