@JNMScience

Researcher @NaturalisMarine @museumnaturalis, Assistant Professor @UniLeiden. @leeselab alumnus. Utilizing molecular tools to study communities.

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Joined December 2009
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Last days to register to the 2025 MeioScool in Japan ! #meiofauna meiodyssea.ifremer.fr/MeioSc…
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📖Published📖 Pereira et al. developed the Intertidal Environmental Chamber: a modular, open-source system designed to realistically simulate the complex thermal environment of intertidal habitats 🌊 buff.ly/TzOusx7
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UITOTO for taxonomy. Get your molecular diagnoses right without coding or breaking a sweat! Use state-specific, contrastive DMCs instead of fuzzy consensus barcodes! 🪰🦋🪱🦎🦀🐌🦉 doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.26.6…
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COI Metabarcoding With a Curated Reference Database and Optimized Protocol Provides a Reliable Species-Level Diversity Assessment of Tardigrades Bartłomiej Surmacz et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

COI Metabarcoding with a Curated Reference Database and Optimized Protocol Provides a Reliable...

Our study provides the first curated database of tardigrade COI sequences. New tardigrade metabarcoding protocol was tested and proved to be highly efficient compared to traditional morphological...

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Taxonomy training workshops are an incredibly valuable experience for everyone involved. The next #ConfusingCrustaceans workshop will be in Wilhelmshaven, Germany from Oct. 6-10, 2025. See peracarida.org for more details. #Peracarida #SweatTheSmallStuff #IcyInverts
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Just published: Meiofauna as sentinels of beach ecosystems: A quantitative review of gaps and opportunities in beach meiofauna research. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @UllAmartinez @NemaMarta #beach #meiofauna
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OrthoDB and BUSCO update: academic.oup.com/nar/advance…
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Today our paper was published on the decline of taxonomic expertise, using the example of Hungary, based on several lines of evidence. It is open access in Biodiversity and Conservation. doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-0…

Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a...

Biodiversity and Conservation - Expertise in biodiversity research (taxonomy, faunistics, conservation with taxonomic background) appears to decline worldwide. While the “taxonomic...

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Thrilled to have published the final chapter of my dissertation. Our team quantified how MPs affect important ecosystem functions performed by meiofauna and macrofauna in marine sediments. @AdeleatSea @cneglecta @BioGeoSte @jeroeningels authors.elsevier.com/c/1jxWE…
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"Dark matter zoology": let's not stop at revealing the species diversity of dark taxa; let's also understand how they respond to global change. Two studies, two answers (flies & spiders)! 🪰: doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0… 🕷️: doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07454 @mfnberlin @Brent_C_Emerson
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Excited to share the final chapter of my PhD thesis has been published! 🎉 Country-wide DNA metabarcoding is now a reality, thanks to key advancements. Big thanks to my co-authors and all who supported me! @leeselab @Senckenberg Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Upscaling biodiversity monitoring: Metabarcoding estimates 31,846 insect species from Malaise traps...

Mitigating ongoing losses of insects and their key functions (e.g. pollination) requires tracking large-scale and long-term community changes. However, doing so has been hindered by the high divers...

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More info about this PhD opportunity through JAE-PRE in soil biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and metabarcoding! 🌱🧬➡️csic.es/es/formacion-y-emple… Join our team at @IPNA_CSIC in Tenerife island! 🌍 If you have any doubts, contact Carmelo Andújar at [email protected]
SoilEvoEcoLab@SoilEvoEcoLab19 Jul 2024
🎓📢 Exciting PhD opportunity throught JAE-PRE grant! Join our team at @IPNA_CSIC in Tenerife. We're looking for a passionate researcher to explore soil arthropod biodiversity in primary forest, focusing on Mediterranean, tropical, and subtropical biomes🧬🔬
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Traditional morphological methods and #metabarcoding show consistent results in assessing the impact of coastal protection measures on #meiofauna at Ahrenshoop, with notable recovery trends but long-term community changes. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.8.12768…
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Our paper is published today in @Nature journal! If you want to know more about how communities interact across habitats and interaction types, and their effects on ecosystem functioning and stability, the paper is here🔽 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Multi-habitat landscapes are more diverse and stable with improved function

Nature - Species interaction data, a field experiment and modelling of plant–insect communities show that landscapes with more habitat types support more even species, more complementary...

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Read the story here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals temporal dynamics but functional stability of arthropod...

The study shows temporal dynamics of invertebrate succession in cattle dung by a multi-taxon approach. Functional redundancy was found within groups of beetles and flies important for dung decompos...

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Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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Now published in @molecology resources: Enhancing #metabarcording efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: a case study on #beach #meiofauna Thanks to all co-authors! doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13…

Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA...

Molecular techniques like metabarcoding, while promising for exploring diversity of communities, are often impeded by the lack of reference DNA sequences available for taxonomic annotation. Our...

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New preprint: We study the environmental, spatial, and biotic drivers of #meiofauna metacommunities in sandy beaches using #metabarcoding, Generalised Dissimilarity Modelling (GDM) and Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM): biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #ecology The main... (1/3)

Metacommunity theory and metabarcoding reveal the environmental, spatial, and biotic drivers of...

Sandy beaches are important ecosystems providing coastal protection and recreation, but they face significant threats from human activities and sea level rise. They are inhabited by meiofauna, small...

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(2/3)...findings: Environment and spatial distance drive community turnover. Environmental conditions drive metacommunity assembly, but biotic associations and spatial factors also play important roles. JSDM is a powerful method to infer ecological niche information...
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(3/3)...for hundreds of understudied meiofauna species. We highlight potential new directions in beach meiofauna research using a combination of molecular tools and ecological modeling. @UllAmartinez @_Max_Pichler @SiCreerProf @NaturalisMarine
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