Towards an ecological trait‐data standard

FD Schneider, D Fichtmueller… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Trait‐based approaches are widespread throughout ecological research as they offer great
potential to achieve a general understanding of a wide range of ecological and evolutionary …

Comparison of two 16S rRNA primers (V3–V4 and V4–V5) for studies of arctic microbial communities

E Fadeev, MG Cardozo-Mino, JZ Rapp… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are poorly characterized in comparison to other
aquatic environments as to their horizontal, vertical, and temporal turnover. Yet, recent …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring

JW Wägele, P Bodesheim, SJ Bourlat, J Denzler… - Basic and Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms

IV Kirstein, A Wichels, E Gullans, G Krohne, G Gerdts - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In order to understand the degradation potential of plastics in the marine environment,
microorganisms that preferentially colonize and interact with plastic surfaces, as opposed to …

BacDive in 2019: bacterial phenotypic data for High-throughput biodiversity analysis

LC Reimer, A Vetcininova, JS Carbasse… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The bacterial metadatabase Bac Dive (http://bacdive. dsmz. de) has become a
comprehensive resource for structured data on the taxonomy, morphology, physiology …

Mature biofilm communities on synthetic polymers in seawater-specific or general?

IV Kirstein, A Wichels, G Krohne, G Gerdts - Marine Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
To understand the ecological impacts of the “Plastisphere”, those microbes need to be
identified that preferentially colonize and interact with synthetic polymer surfaces, as …

Selfish, sharing and scavenging bacteria in the Atlantic Ocean: a biogeographical study of bacterial substrate utilisation

G Reintjes, C Arnosti, B Fuchs, R Amann - The ISME journal, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Identifying the roles played by individual heterotrophic bacteria in the degradation of high
molecular weight (HMW) substrates is critical to understanding the constraints on carbon …

Bacterial abundance and community composition in pond water from shrimp aquaculture systems with different stocking densities

YR Alfiansah, C Hassenrück, A Kunzmann… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In shrimp aquaculture, farming systems are carefully managed to avoid rearing failure due to
stress, disease, or mass mortality, and to achieve optimum shrimp production. However, little …

A hydrogenotrophic Sulfurimonas is globally abundant in deep-sea oxygen-saturated hydrothermal plumes

M Molari, C Hassenrueck, R Laso-Pérez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Members of the bacterial genus Sulfurimonas (phylum Campylobacterota) dominate
microbial communities in marine redoxclines and are important for sulfur and nitrogen …

Repositories for taxonomic data: where we are and what is missing

A Miralles, T Bruy, K Wolcott, MD Scherz… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Natural history collections are leading successful large-scale projects of specimen
digitization (images, metadata, DNA barcodes), thereby transforming taxonomy into a big …