Salinity-induced succession of phototrophic communities in a southwestern Siberian soda lake during the solar activity cycle.

ABSTRACT: A variety of lakes located in the dry steppe area of southwestern Siberia are exposed to rapid climatic changes, including intra-century cycles with alternating dry and wet phases driven by solar activity. As a result, the salt lakes of that region experience significant fluctuations in water level and salinity, which have an essential impact on the indigenous microbial communities. But there are few microbiological studies that have analyzed this impact, despite its importance for understanding the functioning of regional water ecosystems. This work is a retrospective study aimed at analyzing how solar activity-related changes in hydrological regime affect phototrophic microbial communities using the example of the shallow soda lake Tanatar VI, located in the Kulunda steppe (Altai Region,

SUBMITTER: Samylina OS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10884861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature