Estimates of the order of magnitude for the total number of microbial species on Earth range
from 10 3 to 10 9. Despite global dispersal of microorganisms, this number is probably rather …

Phototrophic microbial mats are ideal model systems for ecological and evolutionary
analysis of highly diverse microbial communities. Microbial mats are small-scale, nearly …

Constructing multi-source satellite-derived water quality (WQ) products in inland and
nearshore coastal waters from the past, present, and future missions is a long-standing …

Soil salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities, but the
consequences for microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes are poorly understood …

In this study, the evaluation of soil characteristics was coupled with a pyrosequencing
analysis of the V2-V3 16S rRNA gene region in order to investigate the bacterial community …

The species composition and metabolic potential of microbial and viral communities are
predictable and stable for most ecosystems. This apparent stability contradicts theoretical …

We describe the microbiota of two hypersaline saltern ponds, one of intermediate salinity
(19%) and a NaCl saturated crystallizer pond (37%) using pyrosequencing. The analyses of …

Soda lakes are salt lakes with a naturally alkaline pH due to evaporative concentration of
sodium carbonates in the absence of major divalent cations. Hypersaline soda brines harbor …

Use of culture-independent studies have greatly increased our understanding of the
microbiology of hypersaline lakes (the Dead Sea, Great Salt Lake) and saltern ponds in …

Microbial communities inhabiting a multipond solar saltern were analysed and compared
using SSU rRNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR)‐based fingerprintings carried out in …