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A legacy of human-induced ecosystem changes: spatial processes drive the taxonomic and functional diversities of testate amoebae in Sphagnum peatlands of the Galápagos

A near-annual palaeohydrological study based on testate amoebae from a sub-alpine mire: surface wetness and the role of climate during the instrumental period

article published in 2010

A survey and risk assessment of neonicotinoids in water, soil and sediments of Belize

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

A worldwide survey of neonicotinoids in honey

scientific article

Above- and belowground linkages in Sphagnum peatland: climate warming affects plant-microbial interactions

scientific article published on 15 December 2012

Additive partitioning of testate amoeba species diversity across habitat hierarchy within the pristine southern taiga landscape (Pechora-Ilych Biosphere Reserve, Russia).

scientific article published on 24 November 2014

Amphitremida (Poche, 1913) Is a New Major, Ubiquitous Labyrinthulomycete Clade ⬇️

scientific article published on January 14, 2013

An unexpected role for mixotrophs in the response of peatland carbon cycling to climate warming

scientific article

An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems.

scientific article

Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing microbial biogeography

scholarly article

Assessing the ecological value of small testate amoebae (<45 μm) in New Zealand peatlands

article

Assessing the responses of Sphagnum micro-eukaryotes to climate changes using high throughput sequencing

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Autogenic succession, land-use change, and climatic influences on the Holocene development of a kettle-hole mire in Northern Poland

article

CBOL protist working group: barcoding eukaryotic richness beyond the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms

scientific article

COI barcoding of Nebelid testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): extensive cryptic diversity and redefinition of the Hyalospheniidae Schultze

scientific article

COI gene and ecological data suggest size-dependent high dispersal and low intra-specific diversity in free-living terrestrial protists (Euglyphida: Assulina)

article

Can pollution bias peatland paleoclimate reconstruction?

article

Can soil testate amoebae be used for estimating the time since death? A field experiment in a deciduous forest

scientific article

Case 3782 – Nebela militaris Penard, 1890 (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae): proposed conservation of the specific name by giving it precedence over Nebela bursella Taranek, 1881

scientific article

Certesella larai (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) a new soil testate amoeba species from the Dominican Republic and Chile challenges the definition of genera Certesella and Porosia

scientific article published in 2022

Checklist, diversity and distribution of testate amoebae in Chile

scientific article

Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland

article

Cinderella's helping pigeons of the microbial world: The potential of testate amoebae for identifying cryptotephra.

scientific article

Climatic modifiers of the response to nitrogen deposition in peat-forming Sphagnum mosses: a meta-analysis.

scientific article

Community development along a proglacial chronosequence: are above-ground and below-ground community structure controlled more by biotic than abiotic factors?

article

Comparative analysis of bones, mites, soil chemistry, nematodes and soil micro-eukaryotes from a suspected homicide to estimate the post-mortem interval.

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps

scientific article published in 2022

Comparative ecology of vascular plant, bryophyte and testate amoeba communities in four Sphagnum peatlands along an altitudinal gradient in Switzerland

article

Comparing potential COI and SSU rDNA barcodes for assessing the diversity and phylogenetic relationships of cyphoderiid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Euglyphida).

scientific article published on 10 August 2010

Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

scientific article

Contrasted Micro-Eukaryotic Diversity Associated with Sphagnum Mosses in Tropical, Subtropical and Temperate Climatic Zones

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Contrasted effects of increased N and CO2supply on two keystone species in peatland restoration and implications for global change

article

Contrasting species-environment relationships in communities of testate amoebae, bryophytes and vascular plants along the fen-bog gradient.

scientific article

Cut-over peatland regeneration assessment using organic matter and microbial indicators (bacteria and testate amoebae)

article

Decomposition and insect colonization patterns of pig cadavers lying on forest soil and suspended above ground

scientific article published on 25 May 2019

Development of a new ecotoxicological assay using the testate amoeba Euglypha rotunda (Rhizaria; Euglyphida) and assessment of the impact of the herbicide S-metolachlor.

scientific article published in March 2018

Development of a new pan-European testate amoeba transfer function for reconstructing peatland palaeohydrology ⬇️

article

Discrepancies in Growth Measurement Methods of Mosses: An Example from Two Keystone Species Grown under Increased CO&amp;lt;sub&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sub&amp;gt; and N Supply in a Restored Peatland

scientific article published in 2014

Dispersal limitations and historical factors determine the biogeography of specialized terrestrial protists

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Distribution patterns of soil microbial eukaryotes suggests widespread algivory by phagotrophic protists as an alternative pathway for nutrient cycling

scholarly article by Christophe V.W. Seppey et al published September 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Ecology of testate amoebae (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands: building transfer-function models for palaeoenvironmental studies

scholarly article by Richard J. Payne et al published April 2006 in The Holocene

Ecology of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) inSphagnumpeatlands in the Jura mountains, Switzerland and France

article

Ecology of testate amoebae from mires in the Central Rhodope Mountains, Greece and development of a transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction.

scientific article published on 26 December 2006

Ecology of testate amoebae in peatlands of central China and development of a transfer function for paleohydrological reconstruction

scholarly article

Effect of lead pollution on testate amoebae communities living in Sphagnum fallax: An experimental study

scientific article published on 18 April 2007

Effect of taxonomic resolution on ecological and palaeoecological inference – a test using testate amoeba water table depth transfer functions

article by Edward A.D. Mitchell et al published May 2014 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Effects of Experimental Lead Pollution on the Microbial Communities Associated with Sphagnum fallax (Bryophyta)

scientific article published on 08 March 2007

Effects of climatic change and bog development on Holocene tufa formation in the Lorze Valley (central Switzerland)

article

Effects of decomposing cadavers on soil nematode communities over a one-year period

scholarly article by Ildikó Szelecz et al published December 2016 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Eight species in the Nebela collaris complex: Nebela gimlii (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae), a new species described from a Swiss raised bog.

scientific article

En garde! Redefinition of Nebela militaris (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae) and erection of Alabasta gen. nov

En garde! Redefinition of Nebela militaris (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae) and erection of Alabasta gen. nov

Environmental DNA COI barcoding for quantitative analysis of protists communities: A test using the Nebela collaris complex (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida; Hyalospheniidae).

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic regio

scientific article

Environmental fate and exposure; neonicotinoids and fipronil

scientific article

Environmental filtering and phylogenetic clustering correlate with the distribution patterns of cryptic protist species.

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Experimental warming interacts with soil moisture to discriminate plant responses in an ombrotrophic peatland

article

Exploitation of Northern Peatlands and Biodiversity Maintenance: A Conflict between Economy and Ecology

scientific article published in 2003

Exploitation of northern peatlands and biodiversity maintenance: a conflict between economy and ecology

scientific article published in 2003

Factors modulating cottongrass seedling growth stimulation to enhanced nitrogen and carbon dioxide: compensatory tradeoffs in leaf dynamics and allocation to meet potassium-limited growth

scientific article published on 19 August 2012

Fine-scale horizontal and vertical micro-distribution patterns of testate amoebae along a narrow Fen/Bog gradient.

scientific article

Functional microbial diversity in regenerating cutover peatlands responds to vegetation succession

scientific article published in 2008

Functional responses of multitaxa communities to disturbance and stress gradients in a restored floodplain

article

Genetic Determinism vs. Phenotypic Plasticity in Protist Morphology

scientific article

Glasshouse vs field experiments: do they yield ecologically similar results for assessing N impacts on peat mosses?

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Global contamination of honey by insecticides

scholarly article published 18 December 2017

Global distribution modelling of a conspicuous Gondwanian soil protist reveals latitudinal dispersal limitation and range contraction in response to climate warming

scientific article published on 8 October 2023

Greater topoclimatic control of above- Versus belowground communities

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Higher spatial than seasonal beta diversity of soil protists along elevation gradients

scientific article published on 8 August 2024

Highly diverse and seasonally dynamic protist community in a pristine peat bog.

scientific article

Holarctic phylogeography of the testate amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) reveals extensive genetic diversity explained more by environment than dispersal limitation

scientific article published on 3 September 2013

How many is enough? Determining optimal count totals for ecological and palaeoecological studies of testate amoebae

scholarly article

Hyalosphenia papilio paynei subsp. nov. – a highly conspicuous and localized Sphagnum peatland testate amoeba

scientific article published in January 2024

Impact of a synthetic fungicide (fosetyl-Al and propamocarb-hydrochloride) and a biopesticide (Clonostachys rosea) on soil bacterial, fungal, and protist communities

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Impact of farming practices on soil diatoms and testate amoebae: A pilot study in the DOK-trial at Therwil, Switzerland

article

Late-Glacial and Holocene Lake-Level Fluctuations on the Kenai Lowland, Reconstructed from Satellite-Fen Peat Deposits and Ice-Shoved Ramparts, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

scientific article published in 2022

Linking soil microbial communities to vascular plant abundance along a climate gradient

scientific article

Litter- and ecosystem-driven decomposition under elevated CO2 and enhanced N deposition in a Sphagnum peatland

Long-term population dynamics: Theory and reality in a peatland ecosystem

article published in 2017

Meeting Report: 5th International Symposium on Testate Amoebae (ISTA-5), Montbéliard, France, 14–17 September 2009 - Present Status of Testate Amoeba Research, Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities

article

Modelling the effect of size on the aerial dispersal of microorganisms

article

Molecular phylogeny of euglyphid testate amoebae (Cercozoa: Euglyphida) suggests transitions between marine supralittoral and freshwater/terrestrial environments are infrequent

scientific article published on 22 December 2009

Morphological and molecular diversification of Asian endemic Difflugia tuberspinifera (Amoebozoa, Arcellinida): a case of fast morphological evolution in protists?

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Morphology, biometry, and taxonomy of freshwater and marine interstitial cyphoderia (cercozoa: euglyphida).

scientific article published in May 2009

Multiple neonicotinoids in children’s cerebro-spinal fluid, plasma, and urine

scientific article published in 2022

NAD9/NAD7 (mitochondrial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase gene)-A new "Holy Grail" phylogenetic and DNA-barcoding marker for Arcellinida (Amoebozoa)?

scientific article

Nebela jiuhuensis nov. sp. (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida; Hyalospheniidae): A New Member of the Nebela saccifera - equicalceus - ansata Group Described from Sphagnum Peatlands in South-Central China

scientific article

Niche Conservatism Drives the Elevational Diversity Gradient in Major Groups of Free-Living Soil Unicellular Eukaryotes

scientific article published in 2021

One alga to rule them all: unrelated mixotrophic testate amoebae (amoebozoa, rhizaria and stramenopiles) share the same symbiont (trebouxiophyceae).

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Pack hunting by minute soil testate amoebae: nematode hell is a naturalist's paradise

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Palaeoecological evidence for anthropogenic acidification of a kettle-hole peatland in northern Poland

article

Palaeoecology of Sphagnum riparium (Ångström) in Northern Hemisphere peatlands: Implications for peatland conservation and palaeoecological research ⬇️

Parasites dominate hyperdiverse soil protist communities in Neotropical rainforests

article

Patterns of earthworm communities and species traits in relation to the perturbation gradient of a restored floodplain

article

Patterns of earthworm, enchytraeid and nematode diversity and community structure in urban soils of different ages

scholarly article by Joël Amossé et al published March 2016 in European Journal of Soil Biology

Phylogenetic divergence within the Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) is congruent with test size and metabolism type

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Phylogenetic reconstruction based onCOIreshuffles the taxonomy of hyalosphenid shelled (testate) amoebae and reveals the convoluted evolution of shell plate shapes

scholarly article by Anush Kosakyan et al published 17 July 2016 in Cladistics

Phylogenomics and Morphological Reconstruction of Arcellinida Testate Amoebae Highlight Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes in the Neoproterozoic

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Plant Litter Decomposition and Nutrient Release in Peatlands

article

Potential implications of differential preservation of testate amoeba shells for paleoenvironmental reconstruction in peatlands

scholarly article

Predator-prey mass ratio drives microbial activity under dry conditions in Sphagnum peatlands.

scientific article published on 12 May 2018

Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Quadrulella texcalense sp. nov. from a Mexican desert: An unexpected new environment for hyalospheniid testate amoebae.

scientific article

Quantifying the effect of testate amoeba decomposition on peat-based water-table reconstructions

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Raised atmospheric CO2 levels and increased N deposition cause shifts in plant species composition and production in Sphagnum bogs

article

Ralf Meisterfeld special issue

scientific article

Rediscovery of Nebela ansata (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida) in eastern North America: biogeographical implications

article

Relationship between testate amoeba (protist) communities and atmospheric heavy metals accumulated in Barbula indica (bryophyta) in Vietnam.

scientific article

Relationships between testate amoeba communities and water quality in Lake Donghu, a large alkaline lake in Wuhan, China

article

Residues of neonicotinoids in soil, water and people's hair: A case study from three agricultural regions of the Philippines

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Response of Testate Amoebae (Protozoa) to N and P Fertilization in an Arctic Wet Sedge Tundra

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Response of forest soil euglyphid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Cercozoa) to pig cadavers assessed by high-throughput sequencing

scientific article

Response of sphagnum peatland testate amoebae to a 1-year transplantation experiment along an artificial hydrological gradient

scientific article published on February 2014

Response of testate amoeba assemblages to environmental and climatic changes during the Lateglacial-Holocene transition at Lake Lautrey (Jura Mountains, eastern France)

article

Revisions to the Classification, Nomenclature, and Diversity of Eukaryotes ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Ribosomal RNA genes challenge the monophyly of the Hyalospheniidae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida)

scientific article

Risks of large-scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services.

scientific article

SSU rRNA phylogeny of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa) reveals that the largest Arcellinid genus, Difflugia Leclerc 1815, is not monophyletic.

scientific article

SSU rRNA reveals a sequential increase in shell complexity among the euglyphid testate amoebae (Rhizaria: Euglyphida).

scientific article

Seasonal Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange of a Regenerating Cutaway Bog: How Long Does it Take to Restore the C-Sequestration Function?

scholarly article by Emanuela Samaritani et al published 21 May 2010 in Restoration Ecology

Significance testing testate amoeba water table reconstructions ⬇️

article

Soil Protists in Three Neotropical Rainforests are Hyperdiverse and Dominated by Parasites

scholarly article published 29 April 2016

Soil bacterial communities and ecosystem functioning change more strongly with season than habitat in a restored floodplain

scholarly article by Emanuela Samaritani et al published April 2017 in Applied Soil Ecology

Soil chemistry changes beneath decomposing cadavers over a one-year period

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Soil filtration‐sedimentation improves shelled protist recovery in eukaryotic <scp>eDNA</scp> surveys

scientific article published on 8 May 2023

Soil microorganisms behave like macroscopic organisms: patterns in the global distribution of soil euglyphid testate amoebae

Soil protist diversity in the Swiss western Alps is better predicted by topo‐climatic than by edaphic variables

scientific article published in December 2019

Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

scholarly article by Stefan Geisen et al published August 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Special issue on “Bioindication in soil ecosystems”: Editorial note

Species-specific effects of polyploidisation and plant traits of Centaurea maculosa and Senecio inaequidens on rhizosphere microorganisms.

scientific article

Stay true to integrated pest management

scientific article

Structure of microbial communities in Sphagnum peatlands and effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment.

scientific article published in August 2003

Superficially described and ignored for 92 years, rediscovered and emended: Apodera angatakere (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida: Hyalospheniformes) is a new flagship testate amoeba taxon from Aotearoa (New Zealand) ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 September 2021

Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites.

scientific article

Taxonomic Confusion Blurs the Debate on Cosmopolitanism versus Local Endemism of Free-Living Protists

scientific article published on 18 August 2005

Taxonomic and functional traits responses of Sphagnum peatland testate amoebae to experimentally manipulated water table

article

Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Testate Amoebae Like It Hot: Species Richness Decreases Along a Subalpine-Alpine Altitudinal Gradient in Both Natural Calluna vulgaris Litter and Transplanted Minuartia sedoides Cushions.

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Testate Amoebae and Nutrient Cycling with Particular Reference to Soils

Testate amoebae (Protista) communities in Hylocomium splendens (Hedw.) B.S.G. (Bryophyta): relationships with altitude, and moss elemental chemistry.

scientific article published in December 2004

Testate amoebae analysis in ecological and paleoecological studies of wetlands: past, present and future

article

Testate amoebae examined by confocal and two-photon microscopy: implications for taxonomy and ecophysiology.

scientific article

Testate amoebae in pollen slides

The Phanerozoic diversification of silica-cycling testate amoebae and its possible links to changes in terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

The Revised Classification of Eukaryotes

taxonomic paper

The chastity of amoebae: re-evaluating evidence for sex in amoeboid organisms

scientific article

The ecology of testate amoebae (Protists) in sphagnum in North-western Poland in relation to peatland ecology

scientific article

The performance of single- and multi-proxy transfer functions (testate amoebae, bryophytes, vascular plants) for reconstructing mire surface wetness and pH

article

The perils of taxonomic inconsistency in quantitative palaeoecology: experiments with testate amoeba data

The testate amoebae of New Zealand: A checklist, identification key and assessment of biogeographic patterns

scholarly article published in 2021

The testate lobose amoebae (order Arcellinida Kent, 1880) finally find their home within Amoebozoa

scientific article

Three-quarters of World's Honey Contain Neonicotinoids

Time to regulate microbial eukaryote nomenclature

Tipping point in plant-fungal interactions under severe drought causes abrupt rise in peatland ecosystem respiration.

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

To what extent do food preferences explain the trophic position of heterotrophic and mixotrophic microbial consumers in a Sphagnum peatland?

scientific article

Toward the use of testate amoeba functional traits as indicator of floodplain restoration success

Ultra-trace level determination of neonicotinoids in honey as a tool for assessing environmental contamination

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Using DNA-barcoding for sorting out protist species complexes: a case study of the Nebela tincta-collaris-bohemica group (Amoebozoa; Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae).

scientific article

Vertical micro-distribution and response to nitrogen deposition of testate amoebae in Sphagnum

scientific article published in July 2004

Water-energy balance, past ecological perturbations and evolutionary constraints shape the latitudinal diversity gradient of soil testate amoebae in south-western South America

scientific article published in 2016

Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

scientific article

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