The community composition of any group of organisms should theoretically be determined
by a combination of assembly processes including resource partitioning, competition …

Protists are perhaps the most lineage-rich of microbial lifeforms, but remain largely
unknown. High-throughput sequencing technologies provide opportunities to screen whole …

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 …

Environmental DNA surveys are used for screening eukaryotic diversity. However, it is
unclear how quantitative this approach is and to what extent results from environmental DNA …

Aim Assembly of protist communities is known to be driven mainly by environmental filtering,
but the imprint of phylogenetic relatedness is unknown. In this study, we aimed to test the …

Protists dominate eukaryotic diversity and play key functional roles in all ecosystems,
particularly by catalyzing carbon and nutrient cycling. To date, however, a comparative …

Heterotrophic protists are abundant in most environments and exert a strong top‐down
control on bacterial communities. However, little is known about how selective most protists …

The discovery and characterization of protist communities from diverse environments are
crucial for understanding the overall evolutionary history of life on earth. However, major …

Molecular ecology methods based on 18S rRNA amplification and sequencing have
revealed an astounding diversity of microbial eukaryotes in every environment sampled so …

Environmental molecular surveys targeting protist diversity have unveiled novel and
uncultured lineages in a variety of ecosystems, ranging from completely new high-rank …