Biodiversity assessment is the key to understanding the relationship between biodiversity
and ecosystem functioning, but there is a well‐acknowledged biodiversity identification gap …

Marine organisms belonging to meiofauna (size range: 20–500 μm) are amongst the most
abundant and highly diversified metazoans on Earth including 22 over 35 known animal …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

To the public at large, the phylum Nematoda is mostly known by its pathogenic species,
causing some of the most infectious diseases in humans and animals and more crop losses …

Biological diversity is depleting at an alarming rate. Additionally, a vast amount of
biodiversity still remains undiscovered. Taxonomy has been serving the purpose of …

The use of bioindicator species is a widely applied approach to evaluate ecological
conditions, and several indices have been designed for this purpose. To assess the impact …

Background Here, insight is provided into the present knowledge on free-living nematodes
associated with chemosynthetic environments in the deep sea. It was investigated if the …

Nematodes are the most diverse but most minor studied microorganisms found in soil, water,
animals, or plants. Either beneficial or pathogenic, they significantly affect human and …

Nematodes inhabiting benthic deep-sea ecosystems account for> 90% of the total metazoan
abundances and they have been hypothesised to be hyper-diverse, but their biodiversity is …

Pinpointing processes that structure the geographical distribution of genetic diversity of
marine species and lead to speciation is challenging because of the lack of obvious …