Testate amoebae are unicellular micro-organisms whose hydrological sensitivity and good
preservation in peats make them valuable proxies for past peatland surface wetness, and …

We studied the vegetation, testate amoebae and abiotic variables (depth of the water table,
pH, electrical conductivity, Ca and Mg concentrations of water extracted from mosses) along …

Testate amoebae have been used widely as a proxy of hydrological change in ombrotrophic
peatlands, although their response to abiotic controls in other types of mire and fenland …

Subfossil remains of various groups of organisms preserved in peat and sediment archives
are commonly used to infer past environmental changes using transfer functions based on …

Among the non-pollen micro-fossils commonly encountered in Quaternary sediment
samples prepared for pollen analysis are many shells of testate amoebae. Testate amoebae …

Testate amoebae (also referred to as rhizopods, thecamoebians and arcellaceans) are
single-celled organisms in which the cytoplasm is enclosed within an external shell (the …

Species' functional traits are closely related to ecosystem processes through evolutionary
adaptation, and are thus directly connected to environmental changes. Species' traits are not …

Research in the Northern Hemisphere shows the principal control on species distribution
and abundance of testate amoebae to be local hydrology, which in ombrotrophic mires is …

Most groups of higher organisms show a decrease in species richness toward high altitude,
but the existence of such a pattern is debated for micro-eukaryotes. Existing data are scarce …

The results are presented of a study of the testate amoebae community in a mesoecotone
meadow-spruce forest near Prague, Czech Republic. The ecotone was composed of oak …