Cyanobacterial community succession and associated cyanotoxin production in hypereutrophic and eutrophic freshwaters

RU Tanvir, Z Hu, Y Zhang, J Lu - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) in freshwater bodies are mainly
attributed to excess loading of nutrients [nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P)]. This study …

Ecological impacts of freshwater algal blooms on water quality, plankton biodiversity, structure, and ecosystem functioning

CA Amorim, A do Nascimento Moura - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Harmful algal blooms are among the emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity that need to
be studied further in the Anthropocene. Here, we studied freshwater plankton communities …

Ecological risk assessment models for simulating impacts of land use and landscape pattern on ecosystem services

Y Qian, Z Dong, Y Yan, L Tang - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization involves the expansion of construction land, which changes the land use
and landscape pattern in watersheds. Moreover, it degrades ecosystem services and habitat …

Microbial communities in crop phyllosphere and root endosphere are more resistant than soil microbiota to fertilization

A Sun, XY Jiao, Q Chen, AL Wu, Y Zheng… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop harbors diverse microbial communities that profoundly influence host health and
agricultural productivity. Crop habitat is a dynamic and heterogeneous environment, and …

Ab initio protein structure assembly using continuous structure fragments and optimized knowledge‐based force field

D Xu, Y Zhang - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ab initio protein folding is one of the major unsolved problems in computational biology
owing to the difficulties in force field design and conformational search. We developed a …

Keystone species and niche differentiation promote microbial N, P, and COD removal in pilot scale constructed wetlands treating domestic sewage

L Zeng, Y Dai, X Zhang, Y Man, Y Tai… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The microbial characteristics related to nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and chemical oxygen
demand (COD) removal were investigated in three pilot scale constructed wetlands (CWs) …

Archaeal and bacterial communities assembly and co-occurrence networks in subtropical mangrove sediments under Spartina alterniflora invasion

W Chen, D Wen - Environmental Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Mangrove ecosystems are vulnerable due to the exotic Spartina alterniflora (S.
alterniflora) invasion in China. However, little is known about mangrove sediment microbial …

Community assembly of microbial habitat generalists and specialists in urban aquatic ecosystems explained more by habitat type than pollution gradient

MA Al, Y Xue, P **ao, J Xu, H Chen, Y Mo, J Shimeta… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban freshwater ecosystems have important ecosystem functions, provide habitats for
diverse microbial communities and are susceptible to multiple interconnected factors such …

Dominant role of abundant rather than rare bacterial taxa in maintaining agro-soil microbiomes under environmental disturbances

S Jiao, J Wang, G Wei, W Chen, Y Lu - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Elucidating the mechanisms underpinning the responses of abundant and rare microbial
taxa to environmental disturbances is essential for understanding the biodiversity-stability …

Reviewing interspecies interactions as a driving force affecting the community structure in lakes via cyanotoxins

A Omidi, S Pflugmacher, A Kaplan, YJ Kim… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The escalating occurrence of toxic cyanobacterial blooms worldwide is a matter of concern.
Global warming and eutrophication play a major role in the regularity of cyanobacterial …