Microbial river-to-sea continuum: gradients in benthic and planktonic diversity, osmoregulation and nutrient cycling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coastal aquatic ecosystems include chemically distinct, but highly interconnected environments. Across a freshwater-to-marine transect, aquatic communities are exposed to large variations in salinity and nutrient availability as tidal cycles create periodic fluctuations in local conditions. These factors are predicted to strongly influence the resident microbial community structure and functioning, and alter the structure of aquatic food webs and biogeochemical cycles. Nevertheless, little is known about the spatial distribution of metabolic properties across salinity gradients, and no study has simultaneously surveyed the sediment and water environments. Here, we determined patterns and drivers of benthic and planktonic prokaryotic and microeukaryotic community assembly

SUBMITTER: Tee HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8454136 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature