@ARTICLE{Mieczan_Tomasz_Ecology_2014,
 author={Mieczan, Tomasz and Tarkowska-Kukuryk, Monika},
 number={No 4},
 journal={Polish Polar Research},
 pages={609-625},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2014},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences},
 publisher={Committee on Polar Research},
 abstract={This paper presents a complex study on ciliates from the different species of mosses of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic. Samples of ciliates were collected from Polytrichastrum alpinum , Sanionia georgico−uncinata , Sanionia uncinata and Brachythecium austrosalebrosum . The highest species richness (19 taxa) occurred in habitats from Brachythecium austrosalebrosum . The lowest number of taxa (5) was observed in Polytrichastrum alpinum . The greatest abundance of ciliates was found in samples from Brachythecium austrosalebrosum (25–30 ind. g −1 ), while the lowest was found in samples from Polytrichastrum (4–6 ind. g −1 ). In each species of mosses, vertical differentiation of these protozoa assemblages was found. The number of species and abundance significantly increased in the lower samples. The upper samples of mosses were dominated by mixotrophic taxa, whereas samples from the lower part the proportions of bacterivore species increases. The RDA performed to specify the direct relationships between the abundance of ciliate taxa and environmental variables showed obvious differences between habitats studied. However, variables that significantly explained the variance in ciliate communities were: dissolved oxygen, pH, and nutrients.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Ecology of moss dwelling ciliates from King George Island, Antarctic: the effect of environmental parameters},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/99593/PDF/popore-2014-0026.pdf},
 doi={10.2478/popore−2014−0026},
 keywords={Antarctic, King George Island, ciliates, biodiversity, bryophytes},
}