Coastal bacterioplankton community dynamics in response to a natural disturbance.

ABSTRACT: In order to characterize how disturbances to microbial communities are propagated over temporal and spatial scales in aquatic environments, the dynamics of bacterial assemblages throughout a subtropical coastal embayment were investigated via SSU rRNA gene analyses over an 8-month period, which encompassed a large storm event. During non-perturbed conditions, sampling sites clustered into three groups based on their microbial community composition: an offshore oceanic group, a freshwater group, and a distinct and persistent coastal group. Significant differences in measured environmental parameters or in the bacterial community due to the storm event were found only within the coastal cluster of sampling sites, and only at 5 of 12 locations; three of these sites showed a significant respon

SUBMITTER: Yeo SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3567041 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature