Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Protists are the dominant eukaryotes in the biosphere where they play key functional roles.
While protists have been studied for over a century, it is the high-throughput sequencing of …

The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

Diversification rates vary over time, yet the factors driving these variations remain unclear.
Temporal declines in speciation rates have often been interpreted as the effect of ecological …

Many clades that span the marine–freshwater boundary are disproportionately more diverse
in the younger, shorter lived, and scarcer freshwater environments than they are in the …

Soil micro-organisms drive the global carbon and nutrient cycles that underlie essential
ecosystem functions. Yet, we are only beginning to grasp the drivers of terrestrial microbial …

Earth's aquatic food webs are overwhelmingly supported by planktonic microalgae that live
in the sunlit water column where only a minimum number of physical niches are readily …

Diatoms are a major primary producer in the modern oceans and play a critical role in the
marine silica cycle. Their rise to dominance is recognized as one of the largest shifts in …

High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is increasingly being used for the characterization and
monitoring of biodiversity. If applied in a structured way, across broad geographical scales, it …

Whereas living representatives of Pseudosuchia, crocodylians, number fewer than 30
species, more than 700 pseudosuchian species are known from their 250-million-year fossil …