The importance of microbial activity to ecosystem function in aquatic ecosystems is well
established, but microbial diversity has been less frequently addressed. This review and …

During recent years, many studies have shown that different processes including drift,
environmental selection and dispersal can be important for the assembly of bacterial …

This study explored the short-term planktonic microbial community structure and resilience
in Lake Lanier (GA, USA) while simultaneously evaluating the technical aspects of …

Stochastic processes can play an important role in microbial community assembly. Dispersal
limitation is one process that can increase stochasticity and obscure relationships between …

Urban rivers represent a unique ecosystem in which pollution occurs regularly, leading to
significantly altered of chemical and biological characteristics of the surface water and …

The bacterioplankton diversity in large rivers has thus far been under‐sampled despite the
importance of streams and rivers as components of continental landscapes. Here, we …

Background Bacterial communities are essential to the biogeochemical cycle in riverine
ecosystems. However, little is presently known about the integrated biogeography of …

The classical view states that microbial biogeography is not affected by dispersal barriers or
historical events, but only influenced by the local contemporary habitat conditions (species …

Bacteria inhabiting boreal freshwaters are part of metacommunities where local
assemblages are often linked by the flow of water in the landscape, yet the resulting spatial …

Microbes are transported in hydrological networks through many environments, but the
nature and dynamics of underlying microbial metacommunities and the impact of downslope …