Core and conditionally rare taxa as indicators of agricultural drainage ditch and stream health and function.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The freshwater microbiome regulates aquatic ecological functionality, nutrient cycling, pathogenicity, and has the capacity to dissipate and regulate pollutants. Agricultural drainage ditches are ubiquitous in regions where field drainage is necessary for crop productivity, and as such, are first-line receptors of agricultural drainage and runoff. How bacterial communities in these systems respond to environmental and anthropogenic stressors are not well understood. In this study, we carried out a three year study in an agriculturally dominated river basin in eastern Ontario, Canada to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of the core and conditionally rare taxa (CRT) of the instream bacterial communities using a 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing approach. Water samp

SUBMITTER: Shi Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9990217 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature