Habitat-specific patterns of bacterial communities in a glacier-fed lake on the Tibetan Plateau.

ABSTRACT: Different types of inlet water are expected to affect microbial communities of lake ecosystems due to changing environmental conditions and the dispersal of species. However, knowledge of the effects of changes in environmental conditions and export of microbial assemblages on lake ecosystems is limited, especially for glacier-fed lakes. Here, we collected water samples from the surface water of a glacier-fed lake and its two fed streams on the Tibetan Plateau to investigate the importance of glacial and non-glacial streams as sources of diversity for lake bacterial communities. Results showed that the glacial stream was an important source of microorganisms in the studied lake, contributing 45.53% to the total bacterial community in the lake water, while only 19.14% of bacterial community

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10903976 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature