Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now …

High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA and/or RNA proved to be a
powerful tool to describe protist diversity. This new approach called also the metabarcoding …

Soils harbor a substantial fraction of the world's biodiversity, contributing to many crucial
ecosystem functions. It is thus essential to identify general macroecological patterns related …

In the decade since the first pan-European testate amoeba-based transfer function for
peatland palaeohydrological reconstruction was published, a vast amount of additional data …

High-throughput sequencing (HTS) of soil environmental DNA (eDNA) allows assessing the
full diversity of soil micro-eukaryotes. The resulting operational taxonomic units (OTUs) can …

Macroecological rules have been developed for plants and animals that describe large-
scale distributional patterns and attempt to explain the underlying physiological and …

Protists, abundant but enigmatic single-celled eukaryotes, are important soil microbiota
providing numerous ecosystem functions. We employed high-throughput sequencing of …

Life was microbial for the majority of Earth's history, but as very few microbial lineages leave
a fossil record, the Precambrian evolution of life remains shrouded in mystery. Shelled …

Phenology is the study of timing of periodic activities in biological life cycles. It describes an
inherent component of ecosystem dynamics, and shifts in biological activity have been …

The community composition of any group of organisms should theoretically be determined
by a combination of assembly processes including resource partitioning, competition …