What is the length of time (e.g., one year?) for the experiment. Are you warming samples to document microeukaryote changes?

Loss of species of  Heleopera, Hyalosphenia, and Nebela and increase of species and numbers of Trinema, Corythion,and small Euglena should  parallel physico-chemical changes in dessication.   

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