Toward a Common Set of Functional Traits for Soil Protists
Simone Giachello,
Isabel Cantera,
Alexis Carteron
et al.
Abstract:Protists are major actors of soil communities and play key roles in
shaping food webs, community assembly, and ecosystem processes, yet
their functional diversity is understudied. High-throughput sequencing
data have revealed their ubiquity and diversity, but lack of
standardized traits has hampered the integration of functional
information, limiting our understanding of soil ecosystems. Here we
propose a framework for soil protists, identify a set of common traits
to characterize their functional diversity, a… Show more
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