First records of contemporary testate amoeba assemblages from the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia and potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Payne, Richard J., Bobrov, Anatoly A., Tsyganov, Andrey N., Babeshko, Kirill V., Sloan, Thomas J., Kay, Martin, Kupriyanov, Dmitry A., Surkov, Nikolay V., Novenko, Elena Y., Andreev, Andrey A., Mazei, Yuri A.
• Other Authors: Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Royal Society, Russian Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12469; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12469; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12469; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/bor.12469

The Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia is a substantial landmass that is poorly documented in terms of most elements of biodiversity. Here we provide the first study of modern assemblages of testate amoebae, a widespread group of protists that are particularly abundant in soils. We presen...