[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA–An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

PF Thomsen, E Willerslev - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

The biogeochemistry of marine polysaccharides: sources, inventories, and bacterial drivers of the carbohydrate cycle

C Arnosti, M Wietz, T Brinkhoff… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Polysaccharides are major components of macroalgal and phytoplankton biomass and
constitute a large fraction of the organic matter produced and degraded in the ocean. Until …

[PDF][PDF] Marine DNA viral macro-and microdiversity from pole to pole

AC Gregory, AA Zayed, N Conceição-Neto… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan,
gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …

[图书][B] Environmental DNA: For biodiversity research and monitoring

P Taberlet, A Bonin, L Zinger, E Coissac - 2018 - books.google.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

[PDF][PDF] Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life

FM Ibarbalz, N Henry, MC Brandão, S Martini… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome

PE Galand, HJ Ruscheweyh, G Salazar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. They support high biodiversity
of multicellular organisms that strongly rely on associated microorganisms for health and …

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

T Thomas, L Moitinho-Silva, M Lurgi, JR Björk… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex
microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to …

Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

Y Shi, Y Li, X Xiang, R Sun, T Yang, D He, K Zhang… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial
communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

D Berry, S Widder - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Co-occurrence networks produced from microbial survey sequencing data are frequently
used to identify interactions between community members. While this approach has …

Contrasting the relative importance of species sorting and dispersal limitation in shaping marine bacterial versus protist communities

W Wu, HP Lu, A Sastri, YC Yeh, GC Gong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …