Predicting the effects of multiple global change drivers on microbial communities remains challenging.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities in many ecosystems are facing a broad range of global change drivers, such as nutrient enrichment, chemical pollution, and temperature change. These drivers can cause changes in the abundance of taxa, the composition of communities, and the properties of ecosystems. While the influence of single drivers is already described in numerous studies, the effect and predictability of multiple drivers changing simultaneously is still poorly understood. In this study, we used 240 highly replicable oxic/anoxic aquatic lab microcosms and four drivers (fertilizer, glyphosate, metal pollution, antibiotics) in all possible combinations at three different temperatures (20, 24, and 28°C) to shed light into consequences of multiple drivers on different levels of organization, ranging

SUBMITTER: Suleiman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543831 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature