Jan Macher

Last days to register to the 2025 MeioScool in Japan ! #meiofauna meiodyssea.ifremer.fr/MeioScool-2025…

📖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

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/10.1101/2025.0…

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/10.1111/17…

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

Just published: Meiofauna as sentinels of beach ecosystems: A quantitative review of gaps and opportunities in beach meiofauna research. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @UllAmartinez @NemaMarta #beach #meiofauna

OrthoDB and BUSCO update: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

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…

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,asi9uqM

"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… 🕷️: doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0… @mfnberlin @Brent_C_Emerson

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/10.1111/17…

More info about this PhD opportunity through JAE-PRE in soil biodiversity, ecology, evolution, and metabarcoding! 🌱🧬➡️csic.es/es/formacion-y… Join our team at @IPNA_CSIC in Tenerife island! 🌍 If you have any doubts, contact Carmelo Andújar at candujar@ipna.csic.es

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…

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/s4158…

Published today: Arthropod diversity in shallow subterranean habitats of the Appalachian Mountains 🧵 doi.org/10.3897/subtbi…

Read the story here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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/10.1111/1755-0…

At Naturalis we want to accelerate the monitoring of species. This will require cutting edge research in #biodiversity and in #datascience and #AI as well. Together with @LIACS we are recruiting an assistant professor in computational biodiversity: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

(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

(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...

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/10.110… #ecology The main... (1/3)