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    Soil protozoa as bioindicators: pros and cons, methods, diversity, representative examples by Foissner, W.

    Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-06-1999)
    “…This paper emphasizes some general aspects of soil protozoa as indicators of environmental quality—pros and cons, methods, and diversity. Protozoa are at the…”
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    Protist Diversity: Estimates of the Near-Imponderable by Foissner, Wilhelm

    Published in Protist (01-12-1999)
    “…I present and summarize data which show that biodiversity of free-living ciliates is perhaps one order of magnitude greater than the 3 000 morphospecies…”
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    A statistical approach to estimate soil ciliate diversity and distribution based on data from five continents by Chao, Anne, C. Li, P., Agatha, S., Foissner, W.

    Published in Oikos (01-09-2006)
    “…A total of 359 soil samples collected from five continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America) were investigated for the presence/absence of…”
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    Global soil ciliate (Protozoa, Ciliophora) diversity: a probability-based approach using large sample collections from Africa, Australia and Antarctica by Foissner, W

    Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-12-1997)
    “…Large sample collections from Africa (92 samples), Australia (157) and Antarctica (90) were investigated for soil ciliates using the non-flooded Petri dish…”
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    Notes on the soil ciliate biota (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from the Shimba Hills in Kenya (Africa): diversity and description of three new genera and ten new species by Foissner, W

    Published in Biodiversity and conservation (01-03-1999)
    “…A very diverse ciliate community was found in nine soil samples from the Shimba Hills Nature Reserve in Kenya, equatorial Africa. The ciliates, respectively,…”
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    Soil ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) from evergreen rain forests of Australia, South America and Costa Rica: diversity and description of new species by Foissner, W

    Published in Biology and fertility of soils (01-10-1997)
    “…This paper provides, for the first time, comprehensive data on alpha diversity of soil ciliates from evergreen tropical and temperate rain forests…”
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    A compilation of soil and moss ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Germany, with new records and descriptions of new and insufficiently known species by Foissner, W.

    Published in European journal of protistology (25-09-2000)
    “…This review compiles and analyses the taxonomic and biogeographical information available on soil ciliates from Germany. At least 270 species have been…”
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    Pseudomaryna australiensis nov. gen., nov. spec. and Colpoda brasiliensis nov. spec., two new colpodids (Ciliophora, Colpodea) with a mineral envelope by Foissner, W

    Published in European journal of protistology (01-07-2003)
    “…Pseudomaryna australiensis and Colpoda brasiliensis were discovered in floodplain soils from Australia and Brazil and studied in vivo and in silver…”
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    Protozoa as bioindicators in agroecosystems, with emphasis on farming practices, biocides, and biodiversity by Foissner, W.

    Published in Agriculture, ecosystems & environment (01-04-1997)
    “…This paper emphasizes some aspects of soil protozoology related to agriculture, viz. farming systems, biocides, and biodiversity. Ecofarming slightly increases…”
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    Maristentor dinoferus n. gen., n. sp., a giant heterotrich ciliate (Spirotrichea: Heterotrichida) with zooxanthellae, from coral reefs on Guam, Mariana Islands by LOBBAN, C. S, SCHEFTER, M, SIMPSON, A. G. B, POCHON, X, PAWLOWSKI, J, FOISSNER, W

    Published in Marine biology (01-02-2002)
    “…Maristentor dinoferus n. gen, n. sp., was discovered on coral reefs on Guam in 1996 and has since been found frequently, at depths of 3-20 m. It forms black…”
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    Two new terricolous spathidiids (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from tropical africa : Arcuospathidium vlassaki and Arcuospathidium bulli by FOISSNER, W

    Published in Biology and fertility of soils (03-03-2000)
    “…Soil protozoa of the tropics are poorly known. However, the few data available indicate that tropical soils are inhabited by a highly diverse protozoan…”
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    Terrestrial ciliates (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from two islands (Gough, Marion) in the southern oceans, with description of two new species, Arcuospathidium cooperi and Oxytricha ottowi by Foissner, W

    Published in Biology and fertility of soils (1996)
    “…Twenty-seven soil and moss samples from Gough Island (40 degrees 21'S, 09 degrees 53'E) and Marion Island (46 degrees 52'S, 37 degrees 51'E), two small…”
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    Stable for 15 million years: scanning electron microscope investigation of Miocene euglyphid thecamoebians from Germany, with description of the new genus Scutiglypha by Foissner, W., Schiller, W.

    Published in European journal of protistology (2001)
    “…Material of the Middle Miocene kieselgur deposit of Beuern (Germany, Vogelsberg), about 15 million years old limnic sediment of a volcanic crater lake was…”
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    Ciliates in rapid gravity filters of waterworks exploiting deep groundwaters by Foissner, W.

    Published in Microscopy research and technique (01-01-1996)
    “…Potable water is increasingly produced from deep (>100 m) tertiary groundwaters which often are completely reduced and contain high amounts of ammonium,…”
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    Taxonomic and nomenclatural revision of Sládeček's list of ciliates (Protozoa: Ciliophora) as indicators of water quality by FOISSNER, W

    Published in Hydrobiologia (01-01-1988)
    “…Major changes to the nomenclature of ciliates since 1935 are identified and discussed including published work on the splitting of genera, sibling species and…”
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    Apofrontonia lametschwandtneri nov. gen., nov. spec., a new peniculine ciliate (Protozoa, Ciliophora) from Venezuela by Foissner, W, Song, W

    Published in European journal of protistology (01-10-2002)
    “…Apofrontonia lametschwandtneri was discovered in a highly saline mud and soil sample from a flooded area on the north coast of Venezuela (Maracay National…”
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    Notes on ciliates (Protozoa, ciliophora) from Espeletia trees and Espeletia soils of the Andean Páramo, with descriptions of sikorops espeletiae nov. spec. and Fragmocirrus espeletiae nov. gen., nov. spec by Foissner, Wilhelm

    “…Ciliated protozoa from the giant rosettes of Espeletia trees (Compositae) and Espeletia soils were studied in four samples each from the Andean PÝramo in…”
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    Updating the trachelocercids (Ciliophora, karyorelictea). VI. A detailed description of Sultanophrys arabica nov. gen., nov. spec. (Sultanophryidae nov. fam.) by Foissner, W., AL-Rasheid, K.A.S.

    Published in European journal of protistology (21-06-1999)
    “…Sultanophrys arabica nov. gen., nov. spec, was discovered in the mud of a saline coastal pond at the Arabian Gulf coast. Its morphology and infraciliature were…”
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