A new species named for Ferry Siemensma. After studying amoeboid organisms for several decades observing them in the field, publishing articles about them, and developing his wonderfully detailed website devoted to the little shapeshifters. Now has an amoeba he can call his own. The organism, discovered by researchers in a small greenhouse pond at the university of Cologne, is.

Illustrated guide to microscopic life in the city. How to find and study protists. Life is more than just plants and animals. Any pond, drain, or reservoir in the city is full of life. Microscopic organisms that are too small to see with the naked eye. They are eukaryotes like the animals, plants, and fungi, but they represent a myriad other ways of living life at the micro scale.

Fig 1 Linje mire in the spring 2013. The analyses revealed that the peat.

An informal presentation of my journey from wide-eyed neophyte to owner of an affordable research microscope and all the bumps, bruises, pitfalls and yes, enlightenment, along the way. Monday, 29 September 2014. Tuesday, 26 November 2013. Monday, 18 November 2013. Sunday, 17 November 2013.