It is widely accepted that bacterial community composition and diversity in remote alpine
lakes are structured by environmental conditions such as nutrient status and temperature …

There is limited knowledge of the relative influences of deterministic and stochastic
processes on prokaryotic and fungal communities in lake sediments. In this study, we …

Microbial lipids in stalagmites are increasingly used to reconstruct the paleoclimate change,
necessitating the investigations on microbial communities in dripping waters. A pilot …

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents have been extensively explored around the globe in the past
decades, and the diversity of microbial communities and their ecological functions related to …

The study on sediments in the marginal basins of the Tibetan Plateau is of great significance
for global climate change. The geological information of the Linxia Basin has been intensely …

Numerous palaeoclimatic and modern instrumental data indicated that the climate of
Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau has undergone a significant warming during the past century. In …

The littoral zones of lakes are potential hotspots for local algal blooms and biogeochemical
cycles; however, the microbial communities within the littoral sediments of eutrophic plateau …

Testate amoebae (TA) are important components of soil ecosystems, where they play an
essential role in belowground food webs. In this study, we examined species composition …

Microorganisms might show the potential to change the chemical property of the dripping
water in caves (Huang et al., 2007; Zavarzin, 2002). They are also sensitive to the climate …

A regime shift between a macrophyte-dominated clear state and a phytoplankton-dominated
turbid state can have considerable impact on ecosystem structure and function of shallow …