Urbanization results in local habitat fragmentation, influencing ecological processes and biodiversity. Testate amoebae from temperate (Moscow) and subtropical (Xiamen) urban parks across four habitats (tree hole, moss, soil and sediment) have been studied. A total of 119 morphospecies were identified. The species richness per habitat was higher in the tree hole and moss microhabitats comparing with soils or sediments. The impact of stochastic processes (random changes in demographic processes) on the community was more important than deterministic (non-random patterns in the biotic neighbourhoods of species) in both temperate and subtropical parks.

Ndayishimiye, J.C., Mazei, Y., Babeshko, K., Tsyganov, A.N., Bobrov, A., Mazei, N., Saldaev, D., Ivanovskii, A., Nyirabuhoro, P., Ren, K., Abdullah Al, M., Chen, H., Wang, W., Yang, J. (2021). Multi-habitat testate amoeba in temperate and subtropical urban parks. In: Mitchell E.A.D. (Ed.), 2021 International Symposium on Testate Amoebae – ISTA 9 ¾ (pp. 24). Program & book of abstracts, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzeland.