Ecology of testate amoebae along an environmental gradient from bogs to calcareous fens in East-Central Europe: development of transfer functions for …

A Šímová, M Jiroušek, P Singh, P Hájková… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Testate amoebae play an important role in biomonitoring and the understanding of peatland
(palaeo) ecology. However, their application has been mainly limited to Sphagnum …

En garde! Redefinition of Nebela militaris (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae) and erection of Alabasta gen. nov.

C Duckert, Q Blandenier, FAL Kupferschmid… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular data have considerably contributed to building the taxonomy of protists. Recently,
the systematics of Hyalospheniidae (Amoebozoa; Tubulinea; Arcellinida) has been widely …

Phosphatic scales in vase‐shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania, and Svalbard

LA Riedman, SM Porter, AD Czaja - Geobiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although biomineralized skeletal elements dominate the Phanerozoic fossil record, they did
not become common until~ 550–520 Ma when independent acquisitions of …

[HTML][HTML] An alternative approach to transfer functions? Testing the performance of a functional trait-based model for testate amoebae

S Van Bellen, D Mauquoy, RJ Payne, TP Roland… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Transfer functions are now widely available to infer past environmental conditions from biotic
assemblages. Existing transfer functions are based on species assemblages but an …

Landslides increased Holocene habitat diversity on a flysch bedrock in the Western Carpathians

A Šímová, T Pánek, M Gałka, V Zernitskaya… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Landslides are an important natural phenomenon of the flysch Outer Western Carpathians
that diversify the local topography and provide valuable microrefugia in the …

A contribution to the phylogeny of agglutinating Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) based on SSU rRNA gene sequences

F Gomaa, DJG Lahr, M Todorov, J Li, E Lara - European journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Arcellinid testate amoebae include a wide variety of amoeboid organisms whose test (shell)
varies in shape, composition and size. A decade ago, we initiated molecular phylogenetic …

How Does Sphagnum Growing Affect Testate Amoeba Communities and Corresponding Protozoic Si Pools? Results from Field Analyses in SW China

Y Qin, D Puppe, L Zhang, R Sun, P Li, S Xie - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
The policy and practice of ecological restoration and conservation in China obtained some
remarkable results. For example, Sphagnum moss growing on abandoned farmland, which …

Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship …

C Duckert, Q Blandenier, M McKeown… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eukaryotic microbial diversity is known to be extensive but remains largely undescribed and
uncharted. While much of this unknown diversity is composed of inconspicuous flagellates …

Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (< 45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands

MM McKeown, JM Wilmshurst, C Duckert… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Methodological advances are essential for robust ecological research. Quantitative
reconstructions of environmental conditions using testate amoebae rely on sound taxonomy …

Reinvestigation of Phryganella paradoxa (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) Penard 1902

K Dumack, C Kahlich, DJG Lahr… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major drawback in testate amoeba research is a general lack of scientific studies
combining molecular approaches and classical laboratory experiments. We isolated five yet …