Fifteen important questions in the spatial ecology of diatoms

Stream diatoms exhibit weak niche conservation along global environmental and climatic gradients

(2018) Janne Soininen et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Beyond neutrality: disentangling the effects of species sorting and spurious correlations in community analysis

(2018) Sylvie Clappe et al.   ECOLOGY

Why do microbes exhibit weak biogeographic patterns?

(2018) Kyle M. Meyer et al.   ISME Journal

Disentangling the processes driving the biogeography of freshwater diatoms: A multiscale approach

(2018) François Keck et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Subtropical streams harbour higher genus richness and lower abundance of insects compared to boreal streams, but scale matters

(2018) Jani Heino et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geo-climatic factors drive diatom community distribution in tropical South American freshwaters

(2018) Xavier Benito et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Lake regionalization and diatom metacommunity structuring in tropical South America

(2018) Xavier Benito et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Biogeographical Patterns of Species Richness and Abundance Distribution in Stream Diatoms Are Driven by Climate and Water Chemistry

(2018) Sophia I. Passy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Benthic diatom metacommunity across small freshwater lakes: driving mechanisms, β-diversity and ecological uniqueness

(2018) Beáta Szabó et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Beta diversity of diatom species and ecological guilds: Response to environmental and spatial mechanisms along the stream watercourse

(2017) Aurélien Jamoneau et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Local and geographical factors jointly drive elevational patterns in three microbial groups across subarctic ponds

(2017) Anette Teittinen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring

(2017) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Unravelling direct and indirect effects of hierarchical factors driving microbial stream communities

(2017) Virpi Pajunen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disentangling multi-scale environmental effects on stream microbial communities

(2017) Jenny Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Predicting occupancy and abundance by niche position, niche breadth and body size in stream organisms

(2017) Mariana P. Rocha et al.   OECOLOGIA

Abundance Inequality in Freshwater Communities Has an Ecological Origin

(2016) Sophia I. Passy   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness and evenness

(2016) Jianjun Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A test of traditional diversity measures and taxonomic distinctness indices on benthic diatoms of soda pans in the Carpathian basin

(2016) C. Stenger-Kovács et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Microbial eukaryote communities exhibit robust biogeographical patterns along a gradient of Patagonian and Antarctic lakes

(2016) M. Romina Schiaffino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The roles of elevation and local environmental factors as drivers of diatom diversity in subarctic streams

(2016) Anette Teittinen et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Global patterns and drivers of species and trait composition in diatoms

(2016) Janne Soininen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Metacommunity structuring in a highly-connected aquatic system: effects of dispersal, abiotic environment and grazing pressure on microalgal guilds

(2016) Annika Vilmi et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Trait-based ecological classifications for benthic algae: review and perspectives

(2016) Kálmán Tapolczai et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Nutrient enrichment modifies temperature-biodiversity relationships in large-scale field experiments

(2016) Jianjun Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Diatom Cooccurrence Shows Less Segregation than Predicted from Niche Modeling

(2016) Marius Bottin et al.   PLoS One

Flow directionality, mountain barriers and functional traits determine diatom metacommunity structuring of high mountain streams

(2016) Xiaoyu Dong et al.   Scientific Reports

Testing the theory of island biogeography for microorganisms—patterns for spring diatoms

(2015) A Teittinen et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Climate is an important driver for stream diatom distributions

(2015) Virpi Pajunen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species area relationship (SAR) for benthic diatoms: a study on aquatic islands

(2015) Ágnes Bolgovics et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Lake diatom responses to warming: reviewing the evidence

(2015) Kathleen M. Rühland et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

A trait-based framework for stream algal communities

(2015) Katharina Lange et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Metacommunity organisation, spatial extent and dispersal in aquatic systems: patterns, processes and prospects

(2014) Jani Heino et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Does the Cosmopolitan Diatom Gomphonema parvulum (Kützing) Kützing Have a Biogeography?

(2014) Nelida Abarca et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of Species Diversity and Distribution of an Ancient Diatom Lineage Using a DNA Metabarcoding Approach

(2014) Deepak Nanjappa et al.   PLoS One

Diatom Cell Size, Coloniality and Motility: Trade-Offs between Temperature, Salinity and Nutrient Supply with Climate Change

(2014) Filip Svensson et al.   PLoS One

Flow intermittency decreases nestedness and specialisation of diatom communities in Mediterranean rivers

(2013) Elisabet Tornés et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Diatoms can be an important exception to temperature-size rules at species and community levels of organization

(2013) Georgina L. Adams et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Next-generation sequencing to inventory taxonomic diversity in eukaryotic communities: a test for freshwater diatoms

(2013) L. Kermarrec et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Do ecological differences between taxonomic groups influence the relationship between species’ distributions and climate? A global meta-analysis using species distribution models

(2012) Heather M. Kharouba et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Stochastic species distributions are driven by organism size

(2012) Janne Soininen et al.   ECOLOGY

A hierarchical theory of macroecology

(2012) Sophia I. Passy   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns of elevational beta diversity in micro- and macroorganisms

(2012) Jianjun Wang et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Distance Decay of Similarity in Neotropical Diatom Communities

(2012) Carlos E. Wetzel et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Evidence for Distinct Antarctic Lineages in the Cosmopolitan Terrestrial Diatoms Pinnularia borealis and Hantzschia amphioxys

(2012) Caroline Souffreau et al.   PROTIST

Crenic habitats, hotspots for freshwater biodiversity conservation: toward an understanding of their ecology

(2012) Marco Cantonati et al.   Freshwater Science

Large-scale biodiversity patterns in freshwater phytoplankton

(2011) Maayke Stomp et al.   ECOLOGY

Distance decay of similarity in freshwater communities: do macro- and microorganisms follow the same rules?

(2011) Anna Astorga et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A distinct latitudinal gradient of diatom diversity is linked to resource supply

(2010) Sophia I. Passy   ECOLOGY

Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecology and biogeography of Himalayan diatoms: distribution along gradients of altitude, stream habitat and water chemistry

(2010) I. Jüttner et al.   Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Broad-scale environmental response and niche conservatism in lacustrine diatom communities

(2010) Joseph R. Bennett et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Experimental tests of the bacterial distance–decay relationship

(2010) Thomas Bell   ISME Journal

Contrasting patterns in elevational diversity between microorganisms and macroorganisms

(2010) Jianjun Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Limits to gene flow in a cosmopolitan marine planktonic diatom

(2010) G. Casteleyn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A morphological classification capturing functional variation in phytoplankton

(2009) CARLA KRUK et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity

(2009) Andrés Baselga   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The importance of dispersal related and local factors in shaping the taxonomic structure of diatom metacommunities

(2009) Elie Verleyen et al.   OIKOS

Geographical patterns of micro-organismal community structure: are diatoms ubiquitously distributed across boreal streams?

(2009) Jani Heino et al.   OIKOS

Controls on Diatom Biogeography in the Ocean

(2009) P. Cermeno et al.   SCIENCE

SPECIES SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION JOINTLY AND DIFFERENTIALLY DETERMINE DIATOM DENSITIES IN U.S. STREAMS

(2008) Sophia I. Passy   ECOLOGY

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Ecological Characteristics of Idiosyncratic and Nested Diatoms

(2007) Janne Soininen   PROTIST