Anthropogenic activities usually contaminate water environments, and have led to the
eutrophication of many estuaries and shifts in microbial communities. In this study, the …

Human activities usually leave footprints in the environment. By using 454 pyrosequencing,
the impact of effluent from an industrial park on the coastal microecology in Hangzhou Bay …

There are close exchanges between sediment and water in estuaries; however, the patterns
of prokaryotic community assembly in these two habitat types are still unclear. This study …

Bacterial and archaeal assemblages are one of the most important contributors to the
recycling of nutrients and the decomposition of organic matter in aquatic sediments …

In this study, bacterial and archaeal communities in sediments from the adjacent waters of
Rushan Bay were studied based on 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene. Illumina sequencing …

In the present study, benthic microbial communities along the Pearl Estuary, a typical
subtropical estuary in China subjected to extensive anthropogenic disturbance, were …

Spatial variations of sediment microbes pose a great challenge for the estimation of
anthropogenic influence on biogeochemical processes, yet remain very unclear in coastal …

In the contaminated coastal sediments, variations of microbial community can reflect the
impact of anthropogenic activities. The identification, evaluation and monitoring of the …

Marine sediments are a microbial biosphere with an unknown physiology, and the
sediments harbor numerous distinct phylogenetic lineages of Bacteria and Archaea that are …

Mounting evidence suggests that Archaea are widespread and abundant in aquatic and
terrestrial habitats and play fundamental roles in global biogeochemical cycles, yet the …