The vast areas of permafrost peatlands in the West Siberian Lowland (WSL) hold a
significant amount of carbon currently at risk due to human-caused global warming. The …

Body size may potentially be a key characteristic for both an individual and a community
response to environmental change that palaeolimnological studies can document. Most …

Protists, the micro-eukaryotes that are neither plants, animals nor fungi build up the greatest
part of eukaryotic diversity on Earth. Yet, their evolutionary histories and patterns are still …

Protists are probably the most species-rich eukaryotes, yet their systematics are inaccurate,
leading to an underestimation of their actual diversity. Arcellinida (= lobose testate …

The functional traits of soil protists have been employed in ecological research to enhance
comprehension of the underlying mechanisms of ecological processes. Among the …

Environmental DNA‐based diversity studies have increased in popularity with the
development of high throughput sequencing technologies. This permits the potential …

Deep high-altitude mountain lakes can act as a natural laboratory, and have the potential to
contribute ecological data for understanding the way natural climate and anthropogenic …

Tufa-depositing streams provide great microhabitat complexity and are therefore inhabited
by various periphytic phagotrophic organisms such as ciliates and amoeboid protists …

Mechanisms underlying the effects of ecological disturbance on aquatic ecosystems remain
uncertain in subtropical regions. Here, we used a proxy-based approach to explore the …

Carbon storage capacity of peat deposits in permafrost mires is highly sensitive to climate
change which effects might be strongly mediated by mire moisture and permafrost. Thus, it is …