Freshwater bacteria are at the hub of biogeochemical cycles and control water quality in
lakes. Despite this, little is known about the identity and ecology of functionally significant …

Competition between microbial species is a product of, yet can lead to a reduction in, the
microbial diversity of specific habitats. Microbial habitats can resemble ecological …

Bacteria have important roles in freshwater food webs and in the cycling of elements in the
ecosystem. Yet specific ecological features of individual phylogenetic groups and …

Background Microbes are main drivers of biogeochemical cycles in oceans and lakes.
Although the genome is a foundation for understanding the metabolism, ecology and …

Aims A next‐generation, Illumina‐based sequencing approach was used to characterize the
bacterial community at ten sites along the Upper Mississippi River to evaluate shifts in the …

We investigated the fine-scale population structure of the “Candidatus Accumulibacter”
lineage in enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) systems using the …

Few studies have comprehensively investigated the temporal variability in soil microbial
communities despite widespread recognition that the belowground environment is dynamic …

Sources of atmospheric CH4 are both naturally occurring and anthropogenic. In fact, some
anthropogenic activities may influence the production of CH4 from natural sources, such as …

Small lakes and ponds occupy an enormous surface area of inland freshwater and
represent an important terrestrial–water interface. Disturbances caused by extreme weather …

We investigated patterns of intra‐and interannual change in pelagic bacterial community
composition (BCC, assessed using automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis) over …