Diego Fontaneto

The paper examines microbial communities in groundwater-dependent ecosystems on Lanzarote, finding that human activities significantly influence bacterial diversity and contamination levels.

This study finds high meiofaunal diversity in Antarctic marine sediments, driven by habitat type rather than environmental variables, and suggests limited taxonomic resolution of the 18S marker explains apparent global dispersal.

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.