Michael Bonkowski

TL;DR: The most important environmental drivers that shape the Rhogostomidae community were soil moisture, soil pH, and total plant biomass, and the length/width ratio of the theca was a morphological trait related to the colonized habitats, but not the shape and size of the aperture that is often linked to moisture adaption in testate and thecate amoebae.

TL;DR: A new species of small tree frog from northern Vietnam is described based on morphological differences and molecular divergence and the molecular data showed that the new species is nested in the same group with Gracixalus jinxiuensis sensu lato.

TL;DR: Oomycetes in the rhizosphere of evergreen oaks in a Spanish oak woodland using metabarcoding based on Illumina sequencing of the taxonomic marker cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (cox2) illustrated the significance of small scale variation in habitat conditions for the distribution of oomycete communities and highlighted the importance to study oomyCete communities in relation to such ecological patterns.

TL;DR: Investigating the eukaryotic diversity from 18 samples of one-year beech leaf litter by RNA-based high-throughput sequencing of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene found that the proportion of free-living and heterotrophs was much higher than that of parasites and autotrophic groups, opening the way to a better understanding of the role played by the protistan communities and how biodiversity interacts with decomposition processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined changes in earthworm tissue and microbial stoichiometry and different soil C and N fractions after 90 days of incubation in a controlled laboratory experiment with five litters differing in litter chemistry (clover, maize stover, wheat straw, Rumex and bagasse fiber).