The curse of taxonomic uncertainty in biogeographical studies of free‐living terrestrial protists: a case study of testate amoebae from Amsterdam Island

TJ Heger, EAD Mitchell, P Ledeganck… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… diversity of habitats on the island, these four taxa … testate amoeba diversity of Amsterdam
Island. In this study, our aim was to assess the testate amoeba biodiversity of Amsterdam Island

Diversity and biogeography of testate amoebae

HG Smith, A Bobrov, E Lara - Protist diversity and geographical distribution, 2009 - Springer
… These contain small species (\100 μm) with siliceous tests composed of idiosomes
biosynthesised by the resident amoeba. Testate amoebae research has contributed importantly to …

Biogeography, Evolution and Diversity of Free-Living Protists: Insights from Testate Amoebae

TJ Heger - 2010 - infoscience.epfl.ch
testate amoeba communities from Amsterdam Island, one of the most remote islands in the
… In macroorganisms, the degree of endemism is generally high in such remote islands. Our …

Testate amoebae and nutrient cycling with particular reference to soils

DM Wilkinson, EAD Mitchell - Geomicrobiology Journal, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… We asked the following question: Is the lack of attention given to testate amoebae, and
other protists, in studies of nutrient cycling justified by their relative unimportance or are we …

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

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… A trait-based approach to understanding testate amoebae ecology and paleoecology has
… on testate amoeba (morpho-)species data. We provide a broad overview of testate amoeba

The testate amoebae of New Zealand: a checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns

MM McKeown, EAD Mitchell, MJ Amesbury… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… In order to help fill this knowledge gap and guide future testate amoebae research, we
provide the first checklist for the testate amoebae of New Zealand and include updated …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic implications of morphological complexity within the testate amoeba genus Corythion from the Antarctic Peninsula

TP Roland, MJ Amesbury, DM Wilkinson, DJ Charman… - Protist, 2017 - Elsevier
… in testate amoebae has … testate amoeba taxonomy, whether based on morphometrics or
molecular phylogeny, have not increased at the same rate and the application of testate amoeba

Relationships between environmental conditions and the morphological variability of planktonic testate amoeba in four neotropical floodplains

RL Arrieira, LTF Schwind, CY Joko, GM Alves… - European journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… the relationships between testate amoebae morphology and … common species of planktonic
testate amoebae from genera Arcella, … The morphological variability of testate amoeba was …

[PDF][PDF] First data on testate amoebae associated with the endemic cave bivalve Congeria jalzici Morton & Bilandžija, 2013 with a description of Psammonobiotus …

N Baković, F Siemensma, S Puljas… - Subterranean …, 2023 - subtbiol.pensoft.net
… the alpha diversity of testate amoebae in the Lika region (… testate amoebae assemblages.
In eight caves we found more than 40 testate amoebae taxa, including a new testate amoeba

[HTML][HTML] First records of testate amoebae from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago (Russian Arctic)

YA Mazei, AN Tsyganov, VA Chernyshov… - Polar Biology, 2018 - Springer
… We investigated testate amoebae from the northernmost island of Novaya Zemlya proper …
smaller islands to the south: Dolgii Island and Matveev Island. We found that testate amoebae