Linking ecological niches to bacterial community structure and assembly in polluted urban aquatic ecosystems.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Bacterial communities play crucial roles in the functioning and resilience of aquatic ecosystems, and their responses to water pollution may be assessed from ecological niches. However, our understanding of such response patterns and the underlying ecological mechanisms remains limited.

Methods

In this study, we comprehensively investigated the effects of water pollution on the bacterial structure and assembly within different ecological niches, including water, sediment, submerged plant leaf surfaces, and leaf surfaces, using a 16S high-throughput sequencing approach.

Results

Ecological niches had a greater impact on bacterial community diversity than pollution, with a distinct enrichment of unique dominant phyla in different niches. This disparity in di

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10754954 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature