Ecology of peatland testate amoebae in the Alaskan continuous permafrost zone

LS Taylor, GT Swindles, PJ Morris, M Gałka - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Arctic peatlands represent a major global carbon store, but rapid warming poses a threat to
their long-term stability. Testate amoebae are sensitive hydrological indicators that offer …

[HTML][HTML] The Effects of Vegetation and the Environment on Testate Amoeba Assemblages in Sphagnum Peatlands in the Northern Caucasus Mountains

AN Tsyganov, ES Chertoprud, NG Mazei, AS Esaulov… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] From climatic to anthropogenic drivers: A multi-proxy reconstruction of vegetation and peatland development in the French Jura mountains

E Gauthier, VEJ Jassey, EAD Mitchell, M Lamentowicz… - Quaternary, 2019 - mdpi.com
A 4 m core was extracted from the center of a peatland located in the Drugeon valley
(France). Thirteen radiocarbon dates were used to build a robust age model. Testate …

Holocene carbon storage and testate amoeba community structure in treed peatlands of the western Hudson Bay Lowlands margin, Canada

MA Davies, JW Mclaughlin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) stores a significant proportion of the northern
peatland carbon pool, and constraints on the factors controlling local‐scale variation are …

Short-term response of testate amoebae to wildfire

Y Qin, R Payne, Y Gu, Y Mazei, Y Wang - Applied Soil Ecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Many peatlands are exposed to intermittent burning but the implications of this burning for
microbial communities have been little-studied. Here we consider the impacts of burning on …

Holocene wet shifts in NW European bogs: evidence for the roles of external forcing and internal feedback from a high‐resolution study of peat properties, plant …

M Rundgren, U Kokfelt, K Schoning… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two conspicuous wet shifts in the peat stratigraphy of Store Mosse in southern Sweden,
associated with bog‐wide changes in vegetation and degree of peat decomposition, were …

A reassessment of testate amoebae diversity in Tierra del Fuego peatlands: Implications for large scale inferences

L Burdman, G Mataloni, EAD Mitchell, E Lara - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Testate amoebae are a diverse group of shelled protists frequently used as model
organisms in microbial biogeography. Relatively few species have been reported for the …

Plant community responses to experimental climate manipulation in a Welsh ombrotrophic peatland and their palaeoenvironmental context

LO Andrews, JG Rowson, SJM Caporn… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We test whether vegetation community composition from a 10‐year climate manipulation
experiment on a Welsh peat bog resembles vegetation communities during periods of …

[HTML][HTML] Bucking the trend: Population resilience in a marginal environment

G Plunkett, GT Swindles - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Evaluating the impact of environmental changes on past societies is frequently confounded
by the difficulty of establishing cause-and-effect at relevant scales of analysis. Commonly …

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
New Zealand (NZ) is a well-known hotspot of biodiversity and endemism for macroscopic
organisms, but its microbial diversity is comparatively poorly documented. We assembled all …