title: Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms: Is Everything Small Everywhere? (Systematics Association Special Volume Series)
author: Diego Fontaneto
description: 'This book is a reservoir of ideas on the biogeography of microorganisms and their potentials and limits compared to macroorganisms. It aids in understanding the spatial patterns and the general processes in biogeography. The writers' passions are obvious and the book is of great interest for anyone interested [in] the topic.' Tlesphore Sime-Ngando, L&amp;O Bulletin<br /><br />'... thorough and readable ... helps to move the field beyond the EiE discussion to the many outstanding and varied questions about the distribution of microbial diversity.' Frontiers of Biogeography
zlib_text: Science  
  & Mathematics
  Topic
  Biology
  Subtopic
  Mysteries of the
  Microscopic World
  Course Guidebook
  Professor Bruce E. Fleury
  Tulane University 
  
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