Human access impacts biodiversity of microscopic animals in sandy beaches

Tossed ‘good luck’ coins as vectors for anthropogenic pollution into aquatic environment

(2019) Alejandro Martínez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Meiofauna matters: The roles of meiofauna in benthic ecosystems

(2018) Michaela Schratzberger et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Addressing biodiversity shortfalls in meiofauna

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The use of metabarcoding for meiofauna ecological patterns assessment

(2018) Laiza Cabral de Faria et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

DNA from lake sediments reveals long-term ecosystem changes after a biological invasion

(2018) Gentile Francesco Ficetola et al.   Science Advances

Multi-marker metabarcoding approach to study mesozooplankton at basin scale

(2018) Sergio Stefanni et al.   Scientific Reports

Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity

(2017) Iliana Bista et al.   Nature Communications

Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction for next-generation sequencing reads

(2015) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Are sunscreens a new environmental risk associated with coastal tourism?

(2015) David Sánchez-Quiles et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Response of intertidal sandy-beach macrofauna to human trampling: An urban vs. natural beach system approach

(2015) Ma José Reyes-Martínez et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Meiofaunal community analysis by high-throughput sequencing: Comparison of extraction, quality filtering, and clustering methods

(2015) Pamela M. Brannock et al.   Marine Genomics

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity

(2015) Matthieu Leray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

(2015) Daniela Zeppilli et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Metabarcoding Is Powerful yet Still Blind: A Comparative Analysis of Morphological and Molecular Surveys of Seagrass Communities

(2015) Dominique A. Cowart et al.   PLoS One

The influence of invasive jellyfish blooms on the aquatic microbiome in a coastal lagoon (Varano, SE Italy) detected by an Illumina-based deep sequencing strategy

(2014) Caterina Manzari et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Environmental Status Assessment Using DNA Metabarcoding: Towards a Genetics Based Marine Biotic Index (gAMBI)

(2014) Eva Aylagas et al.   PLoS One

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Coastal adaptation with ecological engineering

(2013) So-Min Cheong et al.   Nature Climate Change

Beach recreation impacts benthic invertebrates on ocean-exposed sandy shores

(2012) Thomas A. Schlacher et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Patterns of Diversity in Soft-Bodied Meiofauna: Dispersal Ability and Body Size Matter

(2012) Marco Curini-Galletti et al.   PLoS One

The widely used small subunit 18S rDNA molecule greatly underestimates true diversity in biodiversity surveys of the meiofauna

(2012) C. Q. Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Island, archipelago and taxon effects: mixed models as a means of dealing with the imperfect design of nature's experiments

(2011) Nils Bunnefeld et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Masters of miniaturization: Convergent evolution among interstitial eukaryotes

(2010) Rebecca J. Rundell et al.   BIOESSAYS

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Meiofauna reduces bacterial mineralization of naphthalene in marine sediment

(2010) Johan Näslund et al.   ISME Journal

Ultrasequencing of the meiofaunal biosphere: practice, pitfalls and promises

(2010) S. CREER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity

(2010) Vera G. Fonseca et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change effects on a miniature ocean: the highly diverse, highly impacted Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Christophe Lejeusne et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Threats to sandy beach ecosystems: A review

(2008) Omar Defeo et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem

(2008) M. E. S. Bracken et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA