Protista and ecosystems

Flasks with protists

Flasks with protists

Eutrophication

Eutrophication

Amoeba

Amoeba

Red saline

Red saline

Bioluminescent algae

Bioluminescent algae

Eutrophication scheme

Eutrophication scheme

Noctiluca scintillans

Noctiluca scintillans

Any sea arm, river, canal, stream represents for the protista who live there an entire universe of microcosms, interconnected but distinct from each other; in other words, what we tend to consider an environment, for example the bottom of a channel, results for protista as distinct in a myriad of different microhabitats, each, distinguishable by the different combination of multiple parameters more or less similar to each other.