Willem Renema

This study examines how urbanization affects fungal community structure in coastal dune habitats, finding guild-specific responses and increased community uniqueness near cities.

The paper examines how urbanisation affects biodiversity in beach-dune ecotones, finding habitat-specific responses in community composition, richness, and turnover.

The paper uses metacommunity theory and metabarcoding to analyze meiofaunal communities in sandy beaches, finding environmental and spatial factors drive community assembly.

The paper improves metabarcoding efficiency for beach meiofauna by integrating DNA barcoding with morphological taxonomy, increasing sequence annotation and species-level OTU identification.

The paper presents mitochondrial genomes of Foraminifera and Radiolaria, revealing reduced gene content and a non-canonical genetic code in retarian mitogenomes.

The paper uses metabarcoding to show distinct zooplankton communities in northern and southern North Sea regions, consistent with known species distributions and abundance patterns.