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

Biomonitoring tools are useful to assess the impact of environmental changes on the
functioning of ecosystems. Existing tools mostly require species identification, thus allowing …

Molecular data have considerably contributed to building the taxonomy of protists. Recently,
the systematics of Hyalospheniidae (Amoebozoa; Tubulinea; Arcellinida) has been widely …

A new sphagnicolous testate amoeba of the genus Longinebela is described. It was isolated
from wet moss Sphagnum flexuosum from the Stara Planina Mountains (Bulgaria). The shell …

Morphological features are often the only characteristics suitable for identification of taxa in
testate amoebae, especially in ecological and palaeoecological studies. However, whereas …