Crossing Treeline: Bacterioplankton Communities of Alpine and Subalpine Rocky Mountain Lakes.

ABSTRACT: From the aboveground vegetation to the belowground microbes, terrestrial communities differ between the highly divergent alpine (above treeline) and subalpine (below treeline) ecosystems. Yet, much less is known about the partitioning of microbial communities between alpine and subalpine lakes. Our goal was to determine whether the composition of bacterioplankton communities of high-elevation mountain lakes differed across treeline, identify key players in driving the community composition, and identify potential environmental factors that may be driving differences. To do so, we compared bacterial community composition (using 16S rDNA sequencing) of alpine and subalpine lakes in the Southern Rocky Mountain ecoregion at two time points: once in the early summer and once in the late summer.

SUBMITTER: Vincent K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8762171 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature