A global survey was performed with 122 aquatic metagenomic DNA datasets (92 lake water
and 30 seawater) obtained from the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). Antibiotic resistance …

The application of road deicing salts in northern regions worldwide is changing the chemical
environment of freshwater ecosystems. Chloride levels in many lakes, streams, and …

Stratified lakes and ponds featuring steep oxygen gradients are significant net sources of
greenhouse gases and hotspots in the carbon cycle. Despite their significant …

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria drive major transformations in
the sulfur cycle, and play vital roles in oxic--anoxic transitions in lakes and coastal waters …

Despite high performance, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) still discharge
significant amounts of organic material and nitrogen and even microbes into the receiving …

The fate of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is partly determined by its availability to
microbial degradation. Organisms at upper trophic levels could influence the bioavailability …

Microbial community assembly is affected by a combination of forces that act simultaneously,
but the mechanisms underpinning their relative influences remain elusive. This gap strongly …

According to theories on moral balancing, a prosocial act can decrease people's motivation
to engage in subsequent prosocial behavior, because people feel that they have already …

Bacterial community composition (BCC) can be modulated by different indirect and direct
factors. The Strobel Lake Plateau (Patagonia, Argentina) holds natural fishless lakes. Fish …

As the world's sixth mass extinction continues, the loss of large animals has widespread
effects on biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Research across disparate systems, such …