Alan Warren

TL;DR: The first register of the marine species of the world is compiled and it is estimated that between one-third and two-thirds of marine species may be undescribed, and previous estimates of there being well over one million marine species appear highly unlikely.

TL;DR: The molecular dataset was expanded with representatives from 55 orders and all major lineages and the monophyly of classes Phyllopharyngea, Karyorelictea, Armophorea, Prostomatea, Plagiopylea, Colpodea and Heterotrichea are confirmed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of two hybrid microcosms revealed that the system comprising a planted soil followed by a planted gravel gave better E. coli removal than the system consisting of a seeded gravel and an unplanted soil bed.

TL;DR: Diversity and evenness indices were found to be relatively independent of physico-chemical factors, whereas species richness and the ratio of biomass to abundance were strongly related to nutrients, and multivariate analyses revealed that temperature, nutrients and salinity may best explain the changes in community structure of ciliates colonizing the glass slides.

TL;DR: If verified, the following hypotheses may prove to be important towards the understanding of the functioning of microbial communities in aquifers: differences in swimming behavior between species of flagellates lead to feeding heterogeneity and niche differentiation, implying that bacterivorous flageLLates graze on different subsets of the bacterial community, and therefore play different roles in controlling bacterial densities.