DNA metabarcoding is increasingly used for the assessment of aquatic communities, and
numerous studies have investigated the consistency of this technique with traditional …

Abstract “Phytoplankton” is a loosely defined functional term, indicating a group of
organisms distributed into several taxonomic groups ranging from oxygenic photosynthetic …

Advances in the sequencing of DNA extracted from media such as soil and water offer huge
opportunities for biodiversity monitoring and assessment, particularly where the collection or …

Accurately identifying the species present in an ecosystem is vital to lake managers and
successful bioassessment programs. This is particularly important when monitoring …

Harmful algal blooms frequently occur globally, and forecasting could constitute an essential
proactive strategy for bloom control. To decrease the cost of aquatic environmental …

Protist community composition and seasonal dynamics are of major importance for the
production of higher trophic levels, such as zooplankton and fish. Our aim was to reveal how …

Melting snow and glacier surfaces host microalgal blooms in polar and mountainous
regions. The aim of this study was to determine the dominant taxa at the species level in the …

Interactions between different phytoplankton taxa and heterotrophic bacterial communities
within aquatic environments can differentially support growth of various heterotrophic …

The vast diversity of microalgae imposes the challenge of identifying them through the most
common and economical identification method, morphological identification, or through …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) was used to analyze the seasonal variations in the
bacterioplankton community composition (BCC) in the euphotic layer of a large and deep …