Bacterial Community Spacing Is Mainly Shaped by Unique Species in the Subalpine Natural Lakes of China.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial communities have been described as early indicators of both regional and global climatic change and play a critical role in the global biogeochemical cycle. Exploring the mechanisms that determine the diversity patterns of bacterial communities and how they share different habitats along environmental gradients are, therefore, a central theme in microbial ecology research. We characterized the diversity patterns of bacterial communities in Pipahai Lake (PPH), Mayinghai Lake (MYH), and Gonghai Lake (GH), three subalpine natural lakes in Ningwu County, Shanxi, China, and analyzed the distribution of their shared and unique taxa (indicator species). Results showed that the species composition and structure of bacterial communities were significantly different among the three lakes.

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8282455 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature