Microbial indicators as a diagnostic tool for assessing water quality and climate stress in coral reef ecosystems

B Glasl, NS Webster, DG Bourne - Marine Biology, 2017 - Springer
Microorganisms play a fundamental role in the functioning and stability of coral reef
ecosystems. However, environmental disturbances can trigger alterations to the natural …

Microbial assemblages and bioindicators as proxies for ecosystem health status: potential and limitations

C Astudillo-García, SM Hermans, B Stevenson… - Applied microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Microorganisms play fundamental roles in the diversity and functional stability of
environments, including nutrient and energy cycling. However, microbial biodiversity loss …

Bacterial diversity along a 2600 km river continuum

D Savio, L Sinclair, UZ Ijaz, J Parajka… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterioplankton diversity in large rivers has thus far been under‐sampled despite the
importance of streams and rivers as components of continental landscapes. Here, we …

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning

T Cordier, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz, J Visco… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monitoring biodiversity is essential to assess the impacts of increasing anthropogenic
activities in marine environments. Traditionally, marine biomonitoring involves the sorting …

Spatial and temporal dynamics of microbial community composition and factors influencing the surface water and sediments of urban rivers

H Wang, X Liu, Y Wang, S Zhang, G Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The temporal and spatial characteristics of urban river bacterial communities help us
understand the feedback mechanism of bacteria to changes in the aquatic environment. The …

Meteorological factors had more impact on airborne bacterial communities than air pollutants

Q Zhen, Y Deng, Y Wang, X Wang, H Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Airborne bacteria have gained increasing attention because they affect ecological balance
and pose potential risks on human health. Recently, some studies have focused on the …

Bacterial community composition and structure in an Urban River impacted by different pollutant sources

AM Ibekwe, J Ma, SE Murinda - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Microbial communities in terrestrial fresh water are diverse and dynamic in composition due
to different environmental factors. The goal of this study was to undertake a comprehensive …

Particle-associated differ from free-living bacteria in surface waters of the Baltic Sea

A Rieck, DPR Herlemann, K Jürgens… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Many studies on bacterial community composition (BCC) do not distinguish between particle-
associated (PA) and free-living (FL) bacteria or neglect the PA fraction by pre-filtration …

Catchment-scale biogeography of riverine bacterioplankton

DS Read, HS Gweon, MJ Bowes, LK Newbold… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Lotic ecosystems such as rivers and streams are unique in that they represent a continuum
of both space and time during the transition from headwaters to the river mouth. As microbes …

Phylogenetic shifts of bacterioplankton community composition along the Pearl Estuary: the potential impact of hypoxia and nutrients

J Liu, B Fu, H Yang, M Zhao, B He… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The significance of salinity in shaping bacterial communities dwelling in estuarine areas has
been well documented. However, the influences of other environmental factors such as …