Interactions between soil protists and pollutants: An unsolved puzzle

C Wu, Y Chao, L Shu, R Qiu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil protists are essential but often overlooked in soils, although they play crucial functional
roles in the terrestrial ecosystem. While soil protists have drawn increased attention to their …

Review on protozoic silica and its role in silicon cycling

D Puppe - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Biogenic silicon (BSi) has been found to play a fundamental role in the link between global
Si and carbon cycles, because it represents a key factor in the control of Si fluxes from …

Microbial community shifts induced by plastic and zinc as substitutes of tire abrasion

G Sieber, D Beisser, JL Rothenberger, M Shah… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Aquatic environments serve as a sink for anthropogenic discharges. A significant part of the
discharge is tire wear, which is increasingly being released into the environment, causing …

Stronger responses of soil protistan communities to legacy mercury pollution than bacterial and fungal communities in agricultural systems

S Du, XQ Li, X Hao, HW Hu, J Feng… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Soil pollution is an important stressor affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
However, we lack a holistic understanding of how soil microbial communities respond to …

[PDF][PDF] Testate amoebae: a review on their multiple uses as bioindicators

YGC Freitas, BRDO Ramos, YG da Silva… - Acta …, 2022 - bibliotekanauki.pl
Testate amoebae (TA) are unicellular protozoans enclosed in a test capable of indicating a
wide variety of environmental conditions. Among others, characteristics such as short life …

Livestock manure spiked with the antibiotic tylosin significantly altered soil protist functional groups

BAT Nguyen, QL Chen, JZ He, HW Hu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing global antibiotic uses in livestock husbandry, animal manures upon land
application pose potential threats to the environments and soil microbiome. Nevertheless …

Effects of phytolith distribution and characteristics on extractable silicon fractions in soils under different vegetation–An exploratory study on loess

D Kaczorek, D Puppe, J Busse, M Sommer - Geoderma, 2019 - Elsevier
The significance of phytoliths for the control of silicon (Si) fluxes from terrestrial to aquatic
ecosystems has been recognized as a key factor. Humankind actively influences Si fluxes by …

µgreen-db: a reference database for the 23S rRNA gene of eukaryotic plastids and cyanobacteria

C Djemiel, D Plassard, S Terrat, O Crouzet, J Sauze… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Studying the ecology of photosynthetic microeukaryotes and prokaryotic cyanobacterial
communities requires molecular tools to complement morphological observations. These …

Characterizing the spatial distributions of soil biota at a legacy base metal mine using environmental DNA

A Kavehei, DB Gore, AA Chariton, GC Hose - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Characterizing the distribution of biota in response to contaminants is a critical element of
site risk assessments. In this study we investigated the spatial distributions of biota and soil …

Quantification of different silicon fractions in broadleaf and conifer forests of northern China and consequent implications for biogeochemical Si cycling

X Yang, Z Song, C Yu, F Ding - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
The terrestrial biogeochemical silicon (Si) cycle significantly contributes to maintaining the
functions and sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. Over the short term, the …