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View article: Long‐term changes to plankton communities in artificially heated lakes
Long‐term changes to plankton communities in artificially heated lakes Open
Increased surface‐water temperatures and nutrient enrichment are predicted to alter planktonic communities, impacting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. While short‐term mesocosm studies have reported temperature‐ and nutrient‐driven …
View article: Warming increases richness and shapes assemblages of eukaryotic parasitic plankton
Warming increases richness and shapes assemblages of eukaryotic parasitic plankton Open
View article: Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones
Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones Open
View article: Roaming the Seas—Assessing Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity Along Salinity Gradients With Zooplankton and <scp>eDNA</scp> Metabarcoding
Roaming the Seas—Assessing Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity Along Salinity Gradients With Zooplankton and <span>eDNA</span> Metabarcoding Open
Marine metazoan biodiversity is accretively being explored through environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of seawater. However, knowledge gaps in the use of eDNA to study changes in diversity resulting from changing abiotic conditions stil…
View article: A catalogue of wind events for assessing the connectivity among Marine Protected Areas in the German Bight (North Sea)
A catalogue of wind events for assessing the connectivity among Marine Protected Areas in the German Bight (North Sea) Open
Marine protected area (MPA) networks are fundamental for restoring and conserving ecosystem functions like biodiversity and general ecosystem health. Ideally, the effects of local conservation measures are not limited to one particular MPA…
View article: Long-term effects of surface-water temperature increase on plankton communities in artificially heated lakes: insights from eDNA metabarcoding.
Long-term effects of surface-water temperature increase on plankton communities in artificially heated lakes: insights from eDNA metabarcoding. Open
Increased surface-water temperatures are predicted to drive dramatic changes to planktonic communities, with consequences for freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. A large number of short-term mesocosm studies reported tempera…
View article: Temporal dynamics of freshwater planktonic parasites inferred using a DNA metabarcoding time-series
Temporal dynamics of freshwater planktonic parasites inferred using a DNA metabarcoding time-series Open
Parasites are important components of biodiversity and contributors to ecosystem functioning, but are often neglected in ecological studies. Most studies examine model parasite systems or single taxa, thus our understanding of community co…
View article: Trade‐offs between reducing complex terminology and producing accurate interpretations from environmental DNA: Comment on “Environmental DNA: What's behind the term?” by Pawlowski et al., (2020)
Trade‐offs between reducing complex terminology and producing accurate interpretations from environmental DNA: Comment on “Environmental DNA: What's behind the term?” by Pawlowski et al., (2020) Open
In a recent paper, “Environmental DNA: What's behind the term? Clarifying the terminology and recommendations for its future use in biomonitoring,” Pawlowski et al . argue that the term eDNA should be used to refer to the pool of DNA isola…
View article: Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects
Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects Open
View article: Amplicon sequencing dataset of soil fungi and associated environmental variables collected in karst and non-karst sites across Yunnan province, southwest China
Amplicon sequencing dataset of soil fungi and associated environmental variables collected in karst and non-karst sites across Yunnan province, southwest China Open
View article: Seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna in native forests and rubber plantations
Seasonal changes in the diversity and composition of the litter fauna in native forests and rubber plantations Open
The litter layer of tropical forests supports a significant fraction of total arthropod diversity and decomposition of this layer is the main pathway by which nutrients are returned to the soil and CO 2 to the atmosphere. Conversion of tro…
View article: The utility of DNA metabarcoding for studying the response of arthropod diversity and composition to land-use change in the tropics
The utility of DNA metabarcoding for studying the response of arthropod diversity and composition to land-use change in the tropics Open
Metabarcoding potentially offers a rapid and cheap method of monitoring biodiversity, but real-world applications are few. We investigated its utility in studying patterns of litter arthropod diversity and composition in the tropics. We co…