Mountain catchments provide for the livelihood of more than half of humankind, and have
become a key destination for tourist and recreation activities globally. Mountain ecosystems …

Phagotrophic protists are key players in aquatic food webs. Although sequencing-based
studies have revealed their enormous diversity, ecological information on in situ abundance …

Protists are ubiquitous members of soil microbial communities, but the structure of these
communities, and the factors that influence their diversity, are poorly understood. We used …

Protists are perhaps the most lineage-rich of microbial lifeforms, but remain largely
unknown. High-throughput sequencing technologies provide opportunities to screen whole …

Small eukaryotes have key roles in aquatic ecosystems, influencing their local environment,
global biogeochemical cycles and climate. Their impact depends on community structure …

Protists influence ecosystems by modulating microbial population size, diversity, metabolic
outputs and gene flow. In this study we used eukaryotic ribosomal amplicon diversity from …

This study examines how salinity reduction triggers the response of three marine microalgae
at the molecular and unicellular levels in terms of chemical, mechanical, and behavioral …

Chrysophyceae are a diverse group of planktonic protists widely distributed in freshwater.
They encompass a variety of orders, whereby heterotrophy has evolved independently in …

Microbial eukaryotes hold a key role in aquatic ecosystem functioning. Yet, their diversity in
freshwater lakes, particularly in high‐mountain lakes, is relatively unknown compared with …

High mountain lakes are extreme freshwater ecosystems and excellent sentinels of current
global change. They are likely among the most comparable ecosystems across the world …