Dispersal limitations and historical factors determine the biogeography of specialized terrestrial protists

D Singer, EAD Mitchell, RJ Payne… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies show that soil eukaryotic diversity is immense and dominated by micro‐
organisms. However, it is unclear to what extent the processes that shape the distribution of …

Soil protist diversity in the Swiss western Alps is better predicted by topo‐climatic than by edaphic variables

CVW Seppey, O Broennimann, A Buri… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Trends in spatial patterns of diversity in macroscopic organisms can be well predicted
from correlative models, using topo‐climatic variables for plants and animals allowing …

Higher spatial than seasonal variation in floodplain soil eukaryotic microbial communities

B Fournier, E Samaritani, B Frey, CVW Seppey… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beta diversity is a key component of biodiversity with implications ranging from species
dynamics to ecosystem functioning. However, β-diversity and its drivers have received little …

Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field

J Roy, F Mazel, K Dumack… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protists are abundant, diverse and perform essential functions in soils. Protistan community
structure and its change across time or space are traditionally studied at the species level …

Functional and phylogenetic relationships link predators to plant diversity via trophic and non-trophic pathways

JT Chen, MQ Wang, Y Li… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human-induced biodiversity loss negatively affects ecosystem function, but the interactive
effects of biodiversity change across trophic levels remain insufficiently understood. We …

Discrepancies between prokaryotes and eukaryotes need to be considered in soil DNA‐based studies

E Lara, D Singer, S Geisen - Environmental Microbiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding approaches are exponentially increasing our understanding of soil
biodiversity, with a major focus on the bacterial part of the microbiome. Part of the soil …

A user guide to environmental protistology: primers, metabarcoding, sequencing, and analyses

S Geisen, D Vaulot, F Mahé, E Lara, C de Vargas… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Protists–all eukaryotes besides fungi, animals, and plants-represent a major part of the
taxonomic and functional diversity of eukaryotic life on the planet and drive many ecosystem …

Simultaneous competition and environmental filtering in woody communities of the understory of Eucalyptus plantations in the Cerrado

CM Galván-Cisneros, M Gastauer, JC Massante… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dense and species-rich understory communities have been commonly found in old or
abandoned stands of Eucalyptus plantations in the Cerrado domain presenting plant …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic Responses of Marine Free-Living Bacterial Community to Phaeocystis globosa Bloom in Beibu Gulf, China

N Li, H Zhao, G Jiang, Q Xu, J Tang, X Li… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Phaeocystis globosa blooms are recognized as playing an essential role in shaping the
structure of the marine community and its functions in marine ecosystems. In this study, we …

Local-scale soil nematode diversity in a subtropical forest depends on the phylogenetic and functional diversity of neighbor trees

Y Li, X Du, X Su, X Han, W Liang, Z Wang… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Understanding the impact of neighbor tree diversity on soil biodiversity at the
individual tree scale and clarifying which facets of neighbor tree diversity have a decisive …