Protists include all eukaryotes except plants, fungi and animals. They are an essential, yet
often forgotten, component of the soil microbiome. Method developments have now …

In the decade since the first pan-European testate amoeba-based transfer function for
peatland palaeohydrological reconstruction was published, a vast amount of additional data …

Aim We investigate the long‐standing question of whether the small size of microbes allows
most microbial species to colonize all suitable sites around the globe or whether their …

1. Despite the abundance, richness and ecological importance of insects, distribution
patterns remain unknown for most groups, and this creates serious difficulties for the …

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

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 …

Aim The development of metacommunity theory inspired a series of studies exploring the
importance of environmental and spatial effects on the composition of biotic assemblages …

We used Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit 1 (COI) to assess the phylogenetic relationships and
taxonomy of Nebela sensu stricto and similar taxa (Nebela group, Arcellinida) in order to …

Amoebae are generally assumed to be asexual. We argue that this view is a relict of early
classification schemes that lumped all amoebae together inside the 'lower'protozoa …

This paper provides a comprehensive list of the freshwater and terrestrial tardigrade fauna
reported from the Americas (North America, South America, Central America and the West …