• Environmental filtering and phylogenetic clustering correlate with the distribution patterns of cryptic protist species 

      Singer, David; Kosakyan, Anush; Seppey, Christophe Victor W.; Pillonel, Amandine; Fernandez, Leonardo D; Fontaneto, Diego; Mitchell, Edward A.D.; Lara, Enrique (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-29)
      The community composition of any group of organisms should theoretically be determined by a combination of assembly processes including resource partitioning, competition, environmental filtering, and phylogenetic legacy. Environmental DNA studies have revealed a huge diversity of protists in all environments, raising questions about the ecological significance of such diversity and the degree to ...
    • Metabarcoding data reveal vertical multitaxa variation in topsoil communities during the colonization of deglaciated forelands 

      Guerrieri, Alessia; Carteron, Alexis; Bonin, Aurélie; Marta, Silvio; Ambrosini, Roberto; Caccianiga, Marco; Cantera, Isabel; Compostella, Chiara; Diolaiuti, Guglielmina; Fontaneto, Diego; Gielly, Ludovic; Gili, Fabrizio; Gobbi, Mauro; Poulenard, Jerome; Taberlet, Pierre Robert Michel; Zerboni, Andrea; Thuiller, Wilfried; Ficetola, Gentile Francesco (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-23)
      Ice-free areas are expanding worldwide due to dramatic glacier shrinkage and are undergoing rapid colonization by multiple lifeforms, thus representing key environments to study ecosystem development. It has been proposed that the colonization dynamics of deglaciated terrains is different between surface and deep soils but that the heterogeneity between communities inhabiting surface and deep soils ...