The impact of urbanisation on community structure, gene abundance and transcription rates of microbes in upland swamps of Eastern Australia.

ABSTRACT: The Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone of the Sydney Basin occur in the headwaters of Sydney's drinking water catchments and are listed as endangered ecosystems, yet they have suffered habitat losses and degradation due to human impacts such as urbanisation. Despite ongoing efforts to restore and better protect upland swamps, they remain poorly understood, potentially hindering the effectiveness of management efforts. Essential to overall ecosystem function and the provision of services for human and environmental benefit are the microbial component of wetland ecosystems. In the case of these swamps, the microbes, have not yet been studied. Here, we investigated differences in the microbial community of upland swamps in urbanised catchments compared to swamps from natural catchmen

SUBMITTER: Christiansen NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398846 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature