Environmental factors affecting the diversity of psychrophilic microbial community in the high altitude snow-fed lake Hemkund, India.

ABSTRACT: The current examination incorporates the evaluation of limnological boundaries influencing the microbial diversity and its distribution in the Hemkund Lake, a high altitude aquatic body located at an elevation of 4,170 m a.s.l. in the Himalayan state Uttarakhand of India. Samples of water were collected for three continuous years (2018-2020) in three sampling attempts each year. Four water sampling sites were identified and studied across the lake during two years of the study periods. A total of nineteen physicochemical parameters of lake water were recorded. Few of the parameters were analyzed at the site whereas the leftover parameters were analyzed in the laboratory at the Department. The diversity of microorganisms was determined via morphological, biochemical, MALDI-TOF MS, and molec

SUBMITTER: Gupta V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325733 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature