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Meiofauna in a changing world [PDF]

Ecological Indicators, 2022
This special issue emerged under the umbrella of the 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO), which celebrated the 50th anniversary (1969–2019) of the International Association of Meiobenthologists under the general theme “Meiofauna in a changing world”.
Moens, Tom, Sroczynska, Katarzyna, Adão, Helena   +2 more
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Meiofauna as Sentinels of Beach Ecosystems: A Quantitative Review of Gaps and Opportunities in Beach Meiofauna Research

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Meiofauna are the most abundant and diverse animal group on beaches, encompassing 20 metazoan phyla and contributing to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of beach ecosystems. Meiofauna react fast to environmental change and disturbance, and therefore, might represent a good sentinel to efficiently anticipate human-driven perturbations ...
Alejandro Martínez, Sören Kohler, Marta García-Cobo, Márcia Neunschwander Kurtz, Diego Fontaneto, Jan-Niklas Macher   +5 more
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Fragmentation of Long Reads Enables Reliable Mitogenome Assembly From Whole-Genome Amplification Data With Pervasive Palindromic Reads. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour
ABSTRACT Whole genome amplification (WGA), and in particular multiple displacement amplification (MDA), has become a key technique for genomic sequencing of microscopic organisms, yet it introduces artefacts such as palindromic (inverted chimeric) reads that may compromise downstream analyses.
Vecchi M, Surmacz B, Jönsson IK, Stec D.   +3 more
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Phloxine B Staining is Compatible With High-Throughput DNA Barcoding of Meiofauna. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Modern, integrative biodiversity research requires methods capable of bridging the gap between detailed morphological observations and the scalability of DNA sequencing. For small, transparent, and highly abundant animals like meiofauna, sorting specimens from the matrix forms a major bottleneck, as the use of commonly used stains can inhibit ...
Gielings RL, Foulon V, Renema W, Macher JN.   +3 more
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Migrations of Sandy Beach Meiofauna [PDF]

Zoologica Africana, 1977
The meiofauna at higher tide levels on a sheltered beach has been found to undergo vertical migrations correlated with the alternate drying and wetting of the sand during the tidal cycle. This movement may be modified by temperature differences between summer and winter and day and night.
McLachlan, A, Erasmus, T, Furstenberg, J.P.   +2 more
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Meiofauna promotes litter decomposition in stream ecosystems depending on leaf species

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Litter decomposition, a fundamental process of nutrient cycling and energy flow in freshwater ecosystems, is driven by a diverse array of decomposers. As an important component of the heterotrophic food web, meiofauna can provide a trophic link between ...
Fang Wang, Dunmei Lin, Wei Li, Pengpeng Dou, Le Han, Mingfen Huang, Shenhua Qian, Jingmei Yao   +7 more
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Meiofauna Biodiversity and Ecology [PDF]

, 2020
Meiofauna are small organisms ranging 30–500 μm in body size, inhabiting marine sediments and other substrata all over the world, even the most extreme ones. We can find many different meiofaunal species in a very small handful of sediment, with the most varied and curious shapes, that share peculiar lifestyles, ecological relationships, and ...
Semprucci Federica, Sandulli Roberto
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Temporal changes (1989–1999) in deep-sea metazoan meiofaunal assemblages on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, NE Atlantic [PDF]

, 2010
Trends among major metazoan meiofaunal taxa were investigated based on 56 deployments of a multicorer at 10 time points over a period of 11 years (1989–1999) at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory site (PAP-SO: 48°50?N 16°30?W, 4850 m depth)
Bett, Brian, Martinez Arbizu, P., Vanreusel, Ann, Bett, B.J., Gooday, A.J., Martinez Arbizu, Pedro, Gooday, Andrew, Kalogeropoulou, V, Kalogeropoulou, V., lampadariou, Nikos, Vanreusel, A., Lampadariou, N.   +11 more
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Response of estuarine meiofauna assemblage to effects of fertilizer enrichment used in the sugar cane monoculture. Pernambuco, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Oceanography, 2009
In situ application of inorganic fertilizer was used to simulate environmental eutrophication associated with the sugar cane monoculture. Meiofauna community structure is herein used to assess this experimental impact.
Paulo J. P. Santos, Mônica L. Botter-Carvalho, Ananias B. do Nascimento-Júnior, Raquel G. C. Marinho, Paulo V. V. C. Carvalho, Ana P. M. C. Valença   +5 more
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Distribution Patterns of Meiofauna Assemblages and Their Relationship With Environmental Factors of Deep Sea Adjacent to the Yap Trench, Western Pacific Ocean

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Sediment samples were collected from 23 sites near the Yap Trench in the Western Pacific Ocean with a depth range of 2896–7837 m. The assemblage composition, spatial distribution, and relationship with environmental variables of meiofauna were studied. A
Xiaoxiao Wang, Xiaoshou Liu, Xiaoshou Liu, Jishang Xu, Jishang Xu   +4 more
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