Protistan Community Diversity in Forest Soils and Tree Canopies

Robin‐Tobias Jauss from Leipzig University conducted a study on protistan diversity in forest ecosystems. High-throughput sequencing of Cercozoa and Oomycota was performed across ecological compartments from soil to canopy using group-specific primers. The research tested the ecological pattern of species richness increasing with habitat diversity within microbial eukaryotes.

Use Cases

• Analyze community dissimilarity based on OTU abundance data mentioned in the description
• Test the 'Everything is everywhere' tenet for microbial distribution patterns
• Compare protistan species richness between soil and canopy microhabitats
• Study the effect of environmental heterogeneity on unicellular eukaryote community structure

Strengths

• Sequencing targeted two prominent protistan taxa, Cercozoa and Oomycota
• Sampling covered multiple ecological compartments from forest soils to the canopy
• Analysis considered OTU abundances to assess community dissimilarity

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Leipzig University

Collection Method

High-throughput sequencing with group-specific primers