Soil organisms drive major ecosystem functions by mineralising carbon and releasing
nutrients during decomposition processes, which supports plant growth, aboveground …

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 …

Protists dominate eukaryotic diversity and play key functional roles in all ecosystems,
particularly by catalyzing carbon and nutrient cycling. To date, however, a comparative …

Protists are the most diverse eukaryotes. These microbes are keystone organisms of soil
ecosystems and regulate essential processes of soil fertility such as nutrient cycling and …

Although protists occupy a vast range of habitats and are known to interact with plants
among other things via disease suppression, competition or growth stimulation, their …

Saprolegnia parasitica causes saprolegniosis, a disease responsible for significant
economic losses in aquaculture and declines of fish populations in the wild, but the …

Peatlands are major carbon sinks globally, but it is still unclear what drives their shift from
functioning as carbon sink to a source. Fungi rely on soil carbon inputs and play an active …

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

Although previous studies, mostly based on microscopy analyses of a few groups of protists,
have suggested that protists are abundant and diverse in litter and moss habitats, the overall …

Aim Trends in spatial patterns of diversity in macroscopic organisms can be well predicted
from correlative models, using topo‐climatic variables for plants and animals allowing …