Final Note of Special Issue “Tardigrades Taxonomy, Biology and Ecology”

• Published in: Diversity
• Main Author: Łukasz Kaczmarek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: diversity; encystment; interpopulation variability; metabarcoding; new species; Tardigrada; taxonomy; Antarctic; Water Bears; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/d12050169

Tardigrada (water bears) are microscopic invertebrates inhabiting aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial habitats. They are thriving in almost all Earth ecosystems from deepest oceans to highest mountains, from tropics to polar regions. Water bears are probably most famous for their cryptob...