The Seasonal Dynamics and the Influence of Human Activities on Campus Outdoor Microbial Communities.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale campus resembles a small "semi-open community," harboring disturbances from the exchanges of people and vehicles, wherein stressors such as temperature and population density differ among the ground surfaces of functional partitions. Therefore, it represents a special ecological niche for the study on microbial ecology in the process of urbanization. In this study, we investigated outdoor microbial communities in four campuses in Wuhan, China. We obtained 284 samples from 55 sampling sites over six seasons, as well as their matching climatic and environmental records. The structure of campus outdoor microbial communities which influenced by multiple climatic factors featured seasonality. The dispersal influence of human activities on microbial communities also contributed to th

SUBMITTER: Chen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6636667 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature