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 …

Freshwater bacteria are at the hub of biogeochemical cycles and control water quality in
lakes. Despite this, little is known about the identity and ecology of functionally significant …

Background The deep mechanisms (deterministic and/or stochastic processes) underlying
community assembly are a central challenge in microbial ecology. However, the relative …

Although the health of rivers is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors with
increasing frequency, it remains an open question how riverine microbial communities …

Bacteria have important roles in freshwater food webs and in the cycling of elements in the
ecosystem. Yet specific ecological features of individual phylogenetic groups and …

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

As the earth system changes in response to human activities, a critical objective is to predict
how biogeochemical process rates (eg nitrification, decomposition) and ecosystem function …

Human activities are causing a global proliferation of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms
(CHABs), yet we have limited understanding of how these events affect freshwater bacterial …

Factors influencing patterns in the distribution and abundance of plant and animal taxa
modulate ecosystem function and ecosystem response to environmental change, which is …

Aims A next‐generation, Illumina‐based sequencing approach was used to characterize the
bacterial community at ten sites along the Upper Mississippi River to evaluate shifts in the …