Protist Molecular Ecology in Continental Systems
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 8477
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Protists represent a large proportion of biodiversity in almost all ecosystems on Earth. They play crucial roles in major ecological processes such as primary production, nutrient cycling, and regulation of microbial populations. Despite having been neglected in the past, protist ecology is becoming a hot topic in microbial ecology today, a change that has in part been fostered by the recent developments in sequencing technology. In comparison to their marine counterparts, protists in continental systems (soil and freshwater systems) have been relatively little studied. This contrasts with the immense influence on the ecosystem services continental systems provide; there is, thus, an important knowledge gap to be filled.
In this Special Issue, we will focus firstly on assessing soil and freshwater protist diversity and its drivers (biotic, climatic, geographic, etc.) as revealed with molecular approaches. Diversity will be studied not only from a taxonomic perspective but with a focus on the organisms’ functions in the environment. Accordingly, we will also deal with organisms’ interactions (predation, parasitism, mutualism), either between protists or with other microorganisms (prokaryotic and eukaryotic), as well as with plants and animals.
Dr. Enrique Lara
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- algae
- foodweb
- heterotrophic protists
- interaction networks
- metabarcoding
- microbial eukaryotes
- mixotrophy
- nutrient cycling
- parasites
- photosynthesis
- symbiosis
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