Water Column Microbial Communities Vary along Salinity Gradients in the Florida Coastal Everglades Wetlands.

ABSTRACT: Planktonic microbial communities mediate many vital biogeochemical processes in wetland ecosystems, yet compared to other aquatic ecosystems, like oceans, lakes, rivers or estuaries, they remain relatively underexplored. Our study site, the Florida Everglades (USA)-a vast iconic wetland consisting of a slow-moving system of shallow rivers connecting freshwater marshes with coastal mangrove forests and seagrass meadows-is a highly threatened model ecosystem for studying salinity and nutrient gradients, as well as the effects of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion. This study provides the first high-resolution phylogenetic profiles of planktonic bacterial and eukaryotic microbial communities (using 16S and 18S rRNA gene amplicons) together with nutrient concentrations and environmental pa

SUBMITTER: Laas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874701 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature