The Relationships Between the Free-Living and Particle-Attached Bacterial Communities in Response to Elevated Eutrophication.

ABSTRACT: Exploring the relationships between free-living (FL) and particle-attached (PA) bacterial communities can provide insight into their connectivity and the partitioning of biogeochemical processes, which is crucial to understanding the elemental cycles and metabolic pathways in aquatic ecosystems. However, there is still intense debate about that whether FL and PA fractions have the same assemblage. To address this issue, we investigated the extent of similarity between FL and PA bacterial communities along the environmental gradients in Lake Wuli, China. Our results revealed that the west Lake Wuli was slightly eutrophic and the east lake was moderately and highly eutrophic. The alpha-diversity of the FL bacterial communities was significantly lower than that of the PA fraction in the west

SUBMITTER: Hu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7109266 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature