Wasser Cluster Lunz

From fluke to fragment: A multifaceted method for molecular sex identification and mitochondrial haplotyping from environmental DNA samples

Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) analyses have become a powerful tool for non‐invasive biodiversity monitoring, yet the applicability of population‐genetic approaches to environmental samples remains largely unexplored. Even when genetic traces originate from a single individual...

Seasonality and functional traits of periphytic algae shape zooperiphyton colonization

Abstract We investigated the influence of seasonality and the phycoperiphyton on the colonization dynamics of zooperiphyton on artificial polyethylene terephthalate substrates in a tropical hypereutrophic reservoir. We tested the hypothesis that seasonal climatic conditions drive...

The Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset: A global repository of spatiotemporal freshwater zooplankton community composition data from lakes and reservoirs to support ecological research

Abstract Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide range of environmental gradients; however, these datasets are limited d...