Low resilience of the particle-attached bacterial community in response to frequent wind-wave disturbance in freshwater mesocosms.

ABSTRACT: The most common natural disturbances in shallow lakes are wind-induced waves, which cause catastrophic changes in the aquatic fauna of lakes. Recovery from these changes is always prolonged. The objective of this study was to understand the resilience and recovery of the particle-attached bacterial community composition (PABCC) after frequent wind-wave disturbance in a large shallow eutrophic lake. To accomplish this, we designed a mesocosm experiment including an undisturbed control, and a physically disturbed treatment that stimulated the superposition of two different intensities of wind-induced waves in the large shallow eutrophic Lake Taihu, China. The PABCC was determined by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, following by cloning and sequencing of the selected samples. We obser

SUBMITTER: Shao K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4070706 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature