The increase in dynamic interactions between climate and human activities threatens water
security in terms of water quantity and quality. Most water security studies have focused on …

Flows of water, soil, litter, and anthropogenic materials in and around rivers lead to the
mixing of their resident microbial communities and subsequently to a resultant community …

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

New scientific understanding is catalyzed by novel technologies that enhance measurement
precision, resolution or type, and that provide new tools to test and develop theory. Over the …

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 …

Despite the essential functions of sedimentary bacterial and fungal communities in
biogeochemical cycling, little is known about their biogeographic patterns and driving …

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 …

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 …

Microbial communities in terrestrial fresh water are diverse and dynamic in composition due
to different environmental factors. The goal of this study was to undertake a comprehensive …