Kirsten Powers

TL;DR: High-resolution spatial maps of the global abundance of soil nematodes and the composition of functional groups show that soil nematode are found in higher abundances in sub-Arctic regions, than in temperate or tropical regions.

TL;DR: This dataset can help to gain insight into the spatial distribution patterns of soil nematode abundance and community composition, and the environmental drivers shaping these patterns.

TL;DR: It is indicated that some of the species considered cosmopolitan in their distribution are actually multispecies polyphyletic groupings and an accurate assessment of Mesocriconema species distributions will benefit from molecular determination of haplotype relationships.

TL;DR: Nematode surveys of North American grasslands conducted from 2010 to 2015 frequently recovered a species of crico- nematid nematode morphologically resembling Mesocriconema curvatum, and it is believed that one of these distinct lineages warrants formal nomenclatural recognition.

TL;DR: Discocriconemella inarata, a plant parasitic nematode species originally discovered in a virgin tallgrass prairie in northwest Iowa, was re-examined by molecular and morphological analyses of topotype material, suggesting a secondary loss of this defining morphological characteristic for Mesocric onema.