How many is enough? Determining optimal count totals for ecological and palaeoecological studies of testate amoebae

RJ Payne, EAD Mitchell - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2009 - Springer
Testate amoebae are increasingly used in ecological and palaeoecological studies of
wetlands. To characterise the amoeba community a certain number of individuals need to be …

A~ 40-year paleoenvironmental record from the Swan Oxbow, Yangtze River, China, inferred from testate amoebae and sedimentary pigments

Y Qin, L Zhang, GT Swindles, H Yang, Y Gu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
We present a~ 40–year record of environmental change in the Swan Oxbow, Yangtze River,
China, inferred from testate amoeba and sedimentary pigment data, combined with remote …

[HTML][HTML] Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Testate amoebae communities in the southern tundra and forest-tundra of Western Siberia

YA Mazei, VA Chernyshov - Biology Bulletin, 2011 - Springer
The species composition and community structure of soil-inhabiting testate amoebae
communities have been studied in biotopes of different types in the southern tundra and …

Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (< 45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands

MM McKeown, JM Wilmshurst, C Duckert… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Methodological advances are essential for robust ecological research. Quantitative
reconstructions of environmental conditions using testate amoebae rely on sound taxonomy …

Dynamics and determinants of amoeba community, occurrence and abundance in subtropical reservoirs and rivers

K Ren, Y Xue, R Rønn, L Liu, H Chen, C Rensing… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Free-living amoebae are widespread in freshwater ecosystems. Although many studies
have investigated changes in their communities across space, the temporal variability and …

[PDF][PDF] A brief survey of free-living amebae in Thailand and Hamamatsu District, Japan

D Nacapunchai, H Kino, C Ruangsittichai… - … Asian journal of …, 2001 - tm.mahidol.ac.th
The aim of this study was to determine the presence of free-living amebae in aquatic
habitats of human environments in Thailand and Hamamatsu district, Japan. Genus …

Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae

HG Smith, A Bobrov, E Lara - Protist diversity and geographical distribution, 2009 - Springer
Testate amoebae are amoeboid protists inhabiting a test (shell). They occur globally in soils,
wetlands and freshwater, especially peats and mosses. They are of ancient origin, dating …

Ecology of testate amoebae in the Komořany Ponds in the Vltava Basin

Z Burdíková, M Čapek, Z Švindrych, M Gryndler… - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
Testate amoeba (TA) assemblages were collected in 2005 from four ponds in Komořany
(Prague, Czech Republic). An analysis of seasonal taxonomic variability of TA populations …

A 100-year history of water level change and driving mechanism in Heilongjiang River basin wetlands

K Bao, W Xing, L Song, H Li, H Liu, G Wang - Quaternary Sciences, 2018 - dsjyj.com.cn
In this study, three typical peat cores were collected from Tuqiang (TQ) of Great Hinggan
Mountain, Youhao (YH) of Small Hinggan Mountain and Honghe (HH) of Sanjiang Plain …