Karin Glaser

TL;DR: It is concluded that encouraging farmers to change the intensity of their land use over time could be an important strategy to maintain high biodiversity in grasslands, and a new measure of whole-ecosystem biodiversity, multidiversity is introduced, which integrates the species richness of 49 different organism groups ranging from bacteria to birds.

TL;DR: This study provides an advanced tool for cercozoan metabarcoding and to investigate their diversity and distribution in the environment, and provides barcoded primers, an economical alternative to multiple libraries for multiplex sequencing of over a hundred samples.

TL;DR: Hydrogenotrophic methanogens seem to be favored under nickel- and cobalt-deficient conditions as their metabolism requires less nickel-dependent enzymes and corrinoid cofactors than the acetoclastic and methylotrophic pathways, and TE supply is critical to sustain the activity of the versatile high-performance methanogen Methanosarcina.

TL;DR: BSCs in Central European forests are particularly involved in the transformation of P i to P o fractions and respond differently to management intensity depending on the predominating tree species, it is concluded.

TL;DR: This investigation of Chilean biocrust suggests high biodiversity of South AmericanBiocrust phototrophs, and combines morphological and molecular characters (small subunit rRNA and ITS region) with an integrative approach.