Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as
a black box labeled as “soil fauna” or “decomposers or detritivores” assuming that they just …

The science of sediment toxicology essentially began in the late 1970s. It was largely a
product of dredging concerns and recognition of widespread contamination of sediments …

Arranging organisms into functional groups aids ecological research by grouping organisms
(irrespective of phylogenetic origin) that interact with environmental factors in similar ways …

The susceptibility of coliform bacteria and bacterial pathogens to free chlorine residuals was
determined before and after incubation with amoebae and ciliate protozoa. Viability of …

There is a lack of taxonomic resolution due to methodological problems in most ecological
reports despite the significant contribution of heterotrophic flagellates (HF) to the carbon …

Salinization of freshwater ecosystems represents a potential threat to biodiversity, but the
distribution of salinity tolerance among freshwater organisms and its functional …

Protozoa are now being recognized as important members of planktonic food webs. This is
due to the inclusion of microbial links in our paradigm of trophic relationships. Heterotrophic …

The various explicit and implicit meanings attributed to the term'guild'are reviewed, and
related terms such as' functional group'are compared with the guild concept. The ways that …

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Phytoflagellates are known to be important contributors to aquatic primary production;
however, their role as consumers has been largely overlooked by ecologists. This is despite …