Research in extreme environments has substantially expanded our understanding of the
ecology and evolution of life on Earth, but a major group of organisms has been largely …

Abstract The Jiaozhou Bay as a model marine ecosystem in China has been intensively
investigated over the last 90 years. However, detailed phytoplankton community …

In recent years, metabarcoding has become the method of choice for investigating the
composition and assembly of microbial eukaryotic communities. The number of …

Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) sequencing—DNA collected from the environment
from living cells or shed DNA—was first developed for working with microbes and has …

Protists are important regulators of microbial communities and key components in food webs
with impact on nutrient cycling and ecosystem functioning. In turn, their activity is shaped by …

Microbiome predators shape the soil microbiome and thereby soil functions. However, this
knowledge has been obtained from small‐scale observations in fundamental rather than …

The taxonomic identification of organisms based on the amplification of specific genetic
markers (metabarcoding) implicitly requires adequate discriminatory information and …

Despite being the most important source of liquid freshwater on the planet, groundwater is
severely threatened by climate change, agriculture, or industrial mining. It is thus extensively …

Protists are major actors of soil communities and play key roles in shaping food webs,
community assembly, and ecosystem processes, yet their functional diversity is …

Protocols for characterizing taxonomic assemblages by deep sequencing of short DNA
barcode regions (metabarcoding) have revolutionized our understanding of microbial …