Meiofauna in a changing world

Abstract

This special issue emerged under the umbrella of the 17th International Meiofauna Conference (SeventIMCO), which celebrated the 50th anniversary (1969–2019) of the International Association of Meiobenthologists under the general theme “Meiofauna in a changing world”. Traditionally, the triannual IMCO is the major assembly for scientists who are active in very divergent disciplines such as taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology, ecotoxicology, impact assessment, … using a wide array of methods, but who converge on the use of meiofauna as model organisms to address their scientific questions.