Global urbanization has resulted in local habitat fragmentation, influencing ecological
processes and biodiversity conservation. However, little is known about the diversity and …

In order to better understand the distribution patterns of terrestrial eukaryotic microbes and
the factors governing them, we studied the diversity partitioning of soil testate amoebae …

Understanding the interactions among the functional groups of living organisms within
ecosystems is a main challenge in ecology. This question is particularly important in relation …

Understanding the spatial and temporal variation in protist communities is essential for
comprehensive studies on diversity and biogeography, yet most research focuses on either …

An ecological study of the testate amoebae community in a sphagnum bog in the Middle
Volga region (Russia) during April-October 2004 revealed 63 taxa, belonging to 21 genera …

Topography is one of the main factors, which regulate composition and functioning of
terrestrial ecosystems. However, the relationships between topography and soil protozoa …

Naked lobose amoebae (also known as gymnamoebae) nowadays are split into the
Tubulinea and Discosea lineages within the Amoebozoa supergroup; few genera belong to …

Patterns of changes in the species richness, abundance, community structure, and biomass
of testate amoebae were studied in a series of different types of aquatic and terrestrial …

Elevation gradients have been useful to study distributional patterns of soil organisms since
the time of Humboldt but only recently these patterns have been studied for soil …

The microspatial (intraparcel) distribution of soil testate amoebae was studied in 12
heterogeneous oak forests and 7 pine forests of the Middle Volga region. Twenty-five …