Terrestrial landscape as the main driver of bacterioplankton communities along a hydrological network located in the Colombian Amazon by Natalie Díaz-Ruiz, Juan Luis Parra, María Carolina García-Chaves, Marcela Núñez, Sonia Sua, Hugo Sarmento, Gladys Inés Cardona, Juan Pablo Niño-García

“…Land cover composition had more explanatory power than local aquatic conditions and dendritic distance in explaining bacterial community dissimilarity, particularly in headwaters. …”
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Shift in phytoplankton community composition over fronts by Marina Lévy, Clément Haëck, Inès Mangolte, Angelina Cassianides, Roy El Hourany

“…This shift accounts for up to a half of the large-scale community dissimilarity, underscoring the substantial influence of fronts on phytoplankton community composition. …”
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Oral microbial community composition is associated with pancreatic cancer: A case‐control study in Iran by Emily Vogtmann, Yongli Han, J. Gregory Caporaso, Nicholas Bokulich, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Alireza Moayyedkazemi, Xing Hua, Farin Kamangar, Yunhu Wan, Shalabh Suman, Bin Zhu, Amy Hutchinson, Casey Dagnall, Kristine Jones, Belynda Hicks, Jianxin Shi, Reza Malekzadeh, Christian C. Abnet, Akram Pourshams

“…Conclusion The overall microbial community appeared to differ between pancreatic cancer cases and controls. …”
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A comprehensive analysis of the response of the fungal community structure to long-term continuous cropping in three typical upland crops by Hang LIU, Feng-juan PAN, Xiao-zeng HAN, Feng-bin SONG, Zhi-ming ZHANG, Jun YAN, Yan-li XU

“…Mortierella, Guehomyces and Alternaria were the most important contributors to the dissimilarity of the fungal communities between the continuous cropping and rotation cropping of soybean, maize and wheat. …”
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Language cognizance and sign language awareness on the part of deaf individuals at 2 nd level primary schools for hearing impaired individuals in the Czech Republic by Pavel Kučera, Eva Souralová

“… A deaf individual’s language cognizance is one of the main factors leading to his/her inclusion in the community of the deaf. Sign language has a major influence on the development and creation of deaf individuals’ identity. …”
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Nighttime Pistachio Consumption Alters Stool Microbiota Diversity and Taxa Abundance Compared with Education to Consume 1–2 Carbohydrate Exchanges (15–30 grams) over 12 Weeks in Ad... by Terrence M Riley, Justin Wright, Regina Lamendella, Jordan E Bisanz, Jeremy Chen See, Khushi Kanani, Penny M Kris-Etherton, Kristina S Petersen

“…Results: The analytical sample included 51 participants (37% female, 49 ± 10 y, 31.5 ± 4 kg/m2, FPG 102 ± 10 mg/dL) who completed the trial (of 66 randomly assigned). β-diversity analysis showed community dissimilarity between the pistachio and usual care conditions postcondition (P = 0.001). …”
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Fire Severity and Habitat Type Determine Vegetation Change and Regeneration Time Following Wildfires in Scottish Uplands by Noemi A. L. Naszarkowski, Sarah J. Woodin, Louise C. Ross, Alison J. Hester, Robin J. Pakeman

“…Effects on community composition were assessed using Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) and Non‐Metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS). …”
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Inter-seasonal phytoplankton dynamics in the UAE coastal waters by Nadia Solovieva, Nadia Solovieva, Dunya Medhat, Fatin Samara, Fatin Samara, Maria Saburova

“…A non-parametric Bray-Curtis dissimilarity analysis with PERMANOVA was also used to analyze seasonal differences in the phytoplankton abundance and composition and it confirmed DCA findings on clear community changes between January and June. …”
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Deoxyribonucleic acid extraction for invertebrate metabarcoding from stream sediment and implication to biotic indices by M.H.F. Amin, H.W. Kim, I.A. Pratiwi, A.R. Kim, H.E. Kang, N.I. Oktavitri, T. Soedarti

“…Conversely, blood and tissue kit had the highest dissimilarity in biotic indices, potentially attributed to the inhibition, resulting in lower detection of sensitive taxa. …”
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Silent predators: Revealing the parasites of Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) in Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal by Bishnu Achhami, Shila Gurung, Sujan Deshar, Sapana Khaiju, Lekha Kumari Thapa, Sabita Gurung

“…Slope, aspect, and distance from water or roads did not significantly affect the distribution of the parasites. Parasite communities showed moderate similarity between the sites (Bray-Curtis dissimilarity = 0.22; Jaccard similarity = 0.67), with no significant difference in prevalence between Mugumba and Kaltal. …”
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