The impact of fire on soil-dwelling biota: A review

G Certini, D Moya, ME Lucas-Borja… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fire has always been a driving factor of life on Earth. Now that mankind has definitely joined
the other environmental forces in shaping the planet, lots of species are threatened by …

Protist metabarcoding and environmental biomonitoring: time for change

J Pawlowski, F Lejzerowicz… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA and/or RNA proved to be a
powerful tool to describe protist diversity. This new approach called also the metabarcoding …

[PDF][PDF] Seven reasons why protists make useful bioindicators

RJ Payne - Acta Protozoologica, 2013 - bibliotekanauki.pl
To introduce the special issue this paper reviews the use of protists as bioindicators. Seven
key advantages of protist bioindicators are highlighted, namely: environmental sensitivity …

Long-term hydrological dynamics and fire history over the last 2000 years in CE Europe reconstructed from a high-resolution peat archive

K Marcisz, W Tinner, D Colombaroli, P Kołaczek… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sphagnum peatlands in the oceanic-continental transition zone of Poland are currently
influenced by climatic and anthropogenic factors that lead to peat desiccation and …

[HTML][HTML] The principal threats to the peatlands habitats, in the continental bioregion of Central Europe–A case study of peatland conservation in Poland

M Grzybowski, K Glińska-Lewczuk - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper discusses resources of peatland habitat of high nature conservation importance
as defined by the European Community, specifically in Poland, as a case study. The study …

Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

GT Swindles, IT Lawson, IP Matthews, M Blaauw… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
We examine mid-to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy
data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is …

Ecology of testate amoebae in an Amazonian peatland and development of a transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction

GT Swindles, M Reczuga, M Lamentowicz, CL Raby… - Microbial ecology, 2014 - Springer
Tropical peatlands represent globally important carbon sinks with a unique biodiversity and
are currently threatened by climate change and human activities. It is now imperative that …

Testing peatland water-table depth transfer functions using high-resolution hydrological monitoring data

GT Swindles, J Holden, CL Raby, TE Turner… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Transfer functions are now commonly used to reconstruct past environmental variability from
palaeoecological data. However, such approaches need to be critically appraised. Testate …

Effects of fire on the hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of peatland river systems

LE Brown, J Holden, SM Palmer… - Freshwater …, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Peatlands are found around the world and cover∼ 3.4% of the Earth's surface. In the UK,
peatlands cover 17.2% or∼ 1.58 Mha of the land surface and occur mainly in upland areas …

Late Holocene ecohydrological and carbon dynamics of a UK raised bog: impact of human activity and climate change

TE Turner, GT Swindles, KH Roucoux - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the ecohydrological responses of peatlands to climate change is particularly
challenging over the late Holocene owing to the confounding influence of anthropogenic …