Ecology

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1. Hirakata Y, Oshiki M, Kuroda K, Hatamoto M, Kubota K, Yamaguchi T, et al. Effects of predation by protists on prokaryotic community function, structure, and diversity in anaerobic granular sludge. Microbes Environ. 2016;31:279–87. 2. Holmes DE, Giloteaux L, Orellana R, Williams KH, Robbins MJ, Lovley DR. Methane production from protozoan endosymbionts following stimulation of […] More

1. Schofield, O. et al. How do polar marine ecosystems respond to rapid climate change? Science 328, 1520–1523 (2010). 2. Vaughan, D. G. et al. Recent rapid regional climate warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. Clim. Change 60, 243–274 (2003). Article Google Scholar 3. Klinck, J. M., Hofmann, E. E., Beardsley, R. C., Salihoglu, B. & […] More

1. Gardener, M. C. & Gillman, M. P. The taste of nectar – a neglected area of pollination ecology. Oikos 98, 552–557 (2002). Article Google Scholar 2. Vogel, S. Blütenbiologische Typen als Elemente der Sippengliederung, dargestellt anhand der Flora Südafrikas. In: Troll, W. & V. Guttenberg, H. (eds) Bot. Studien H. l. 338 pp. (Fischer, […] More

Ethical Statement Schilbe intermedius is not protected under any legislation and not considered threatened or endangered. Samples from Nigeria were collected from non-protected areas for which permissions were not required as the sampling locations do not fall under the Nigerian Wildlife Protection Act. Sample collection With the help of local fishermen and field assistants, 118 […] More

Biotests In all biotests, we used clonal females of Daphnia magna originating from Binnensee, a lake in North-eastern Germany (GIS coordinates 54.3256 N, 10.6296 E) inhabited by fish30, and maintained in a laboratory culture for over 20 years. The water used in the experiments (originating from the Szczęśliwice reservoir in Warsaw, Poland) had been stored in […] More

1. Adl, S. M. et al. The revised classification of eukaryotes. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 59, 429–493 (2012). 2. Lopez-Garcia, P. & Moreira, D. Open questions on the origin of eukaryotes. Trends Ecol. Evol. 30, 697–708 (2015). 3. Lopez-Garcia, P., Eme, L. & Moreira, D. Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 434, 20–33 (2017). 4. […] More

1. Peters, W. et al. Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale. Nat. Geosci. 11, 744–748 (2018). 2. Skinner, C. B. et al. The role of plant CO2 physiological forcing in shaping future daily-scale precipitation. J. Clim. 30, 2319–2340 (2017). Article Google Scholar 3. Frank, D. C. […] More