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Distribution of soil-inhabiting testate amoebae along a mountain slope (Baikal Lake region, Khamar-Daban ridge, Cherskii peak)

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The specific composition and distribution of soil-inhabiting testate amoebae along the Cherskii peak slope (Khamar-Daban mountain ridge, Lake Baikal region) were studied within the altitude range from 1000 to 1570 m above sea level according to the changes in biogeocenoses from birch-aspen to cedar-fir forests to cedar-fir-bush forest-tundra. One-hundred-four taxa were identified. The most common species are ubiquits with a wide geographical distribution: Trinema lineare, Euglypha levis, Euglypha rotunda, Trinema enchelys, Phryganella acropodia, Tracheleuglypha dentata, Assulina muscorum, Trinema complanatum, and Centropyxis aerophila. The species richness varies from 12 to 40 species per sample, and the abundance varies from 500 to 120000 ind. per gram of absolutely dry soil. The spatial heterogeneity of the specific composition grows with altitude, and the community composition changes. The absence of a common pattern in the cenotic changes in the communities of testate amoebae in Western Europe and the Lake Baikal region is discussed.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.A. Mazei, O.V. Marfina, V.A. Chernyshov, 2011, published in Povolzhskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, No. 1, pp. 42–48.

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Mazei, Y.A., Marfina, O.V. & Chernyshov, V.A. Distribution of soil-inhabiting testate amoebae along a mountain slope (Baikal Lake region, Khamar-Daban ridge, Cherskii peak). Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 39, 800–804 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359012100032

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