[HTML][HTML] Environmental DNA–An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

PF Thomsen, E Willerslev - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

The biogeochemistry of marine polysaccharides: sources, inventories, and bacterial drivers of the carbohydrate cycle

C Arnosti, M Wietz, T Brinkhoff… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Polysaccharides are major components of macroalgal and phytoplankton biomass and
constitute a large fraction of the organic matter produced and degraded in the ocean. Until …

Marine DNA viral macro-and microdiversity from pole to pole

AC Gregory, AA Zayed, N Conceição-Neto… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan,
gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …

[LIBRO][B] Environmental DNA: For biodiversity research and monitoring

P Taberlet, A Bonin, L Zinger, E Coissac - 2018 - books.google.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life

FM Ibarbalz, N Henry, MC Brandão, S Martini… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome

T Thomas, L Moitinho-Silva, M Lurgi, JR Björk… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Sponges (phylum Porifera) are early-diverging metazoa renowned for establishing complex
microbial symbioses. Here we present a global Porifera microbiome survey, set out to …

Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

Y Shi, Y Li, X ** marine bacterial versus protist communities
W Wu, HP Lu, A Sastri, YC Yeh, GC Gong… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial ecology is to understand the underlying mechanisms driving
community assembly, particularly in the continuum of species sorting and dispersal …

Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

D Berry, S Widder - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Co-occurrence networks produced from microbial survey sequencing data are frequently
used to identify interactions between community members. While this approach has …

Inordinate fondness multiplied and redistributed: the number of species on earth and the new pie of life

BB Larsen, EC Miller, MK Rhodes… - The Quarterly Review …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
The number of species on Earth is one of the most fundamental numbers in science, but one
that remains highly uncertain. Clearly, more species exist than the present number of …