Eukaryotic plankton community and assembly processes in a large-scale water diversion project in China.

ABSTRACT: The Middle Route of the South to North Water Diversion Project (MRP) and its water source, the Danjiangkou Reservoir (DJK), play a pivotal role in mitigating the chronic water scarcity challenges faced by northern China. Eukaryotic plankton are widespread in aquatic ecosystems, which are crucial for the water quality stability of DJK and MRP, yet comparative studies on their contemporaneous dynamics and assembly processes are scarce. In this study, amplicon sequencing was used to investigate the eukaryotic plankton communities. The results revealed that the similarity in community composition of DJK is significantly higher than that of MRP, exhibiting distance-decay patterns. Environmental heterogeneity exhibits significant differences between DJK and MRP, and it significantly influences c

SUBMITTER: Zhu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11799226 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature