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Open AccessEarly human impact on lake cyanobacteria revealed by a Holocene record of sedimentary ancient DNA
Sedimentary DNA-based studies revealed the effects of human activity on lake cyanobacteria communities over the last centuries, yet we continue to lack information over longer timescales. Here, we apply high-r...
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Cyanobacterial DNA from Lake Sediments
Cyanobacteria have become infamous due to their impacts on aquatic ecosystems, in particular negative consequences on ecosystem functioning and services to human populations. Observations of cyanobacterial dom...
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Aquatic Animal DNA from Lake Sediments
Animals play key roles in aquatic ecosystems, both as connectors between primary producers and consumers, as well as mobile vectors, moving nutrients and other elements between habitats. Furthermore, many aqua...
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An Overview of Biodiversity and Network Modeling Approaches: Applications to Sedimentary DNA Records
The response of aquatic organisms to anthropogenic drivers varies over space and time and, as a result, the cumulative effects of these drivers is often heterogeneous and context-dependent (De Senerpont Domis ...
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Using DNA from formaldehyde-preserved Daphnia to reconstruct past populations
We compared taxon composition of the Daphnia longispina hybrid community, as reconstructed from dormant eggs (retrieved from sediment samples) and the pelagic population (retrieved from formaldehyde-preserved zoo...
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Open AccessHigh dispersal levels and lake warming are emergent drivers of cyanobacterial community assembly in peri-Alpine lakes
Disentangling the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes in sha** natural communities is central to ecology. Studies about community assembly over broad temporal and spatial scales in ...
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Homogenization of lake cyanobacterial communities over a century of climate change and eutrophication
Human impacts on biodiversity are well recognized, but uncertainties remain regarding patterns of diversity change at different spatial and temporal scales. Changes in microbial assemblages are, in particular,...
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Sedimentary and egg-bank DNA from 3 European lakes reveal concurrent changes in the composition and diversity of cyanobacterial and Daphnia communities
Eutrophication generally favours the growth of cyanobacteria over eukaryotic green algae in freshwater lakes. Cyanobacteria constitute a poor food source for the waterflea Daphnia, an important primary consumer o...
