The increase in dynamic interactions between climate and human activities threatens water
security in terms of water quantity and quality. Most water security studies have focused on …

Flows of water, soil, litter, and anthropogenic materials in and around rivers lead to the
mixing of their resident microbial communities and subsequently to a resultant community …

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030
represent an ambitious blueprint to reduce inequalities globally and achieve a sustainable …

Although the health of rivers is threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors with
increasing frequency, it remains an open question how riverine microbial communities …

Urban rivers represent a unique ecosystem in which pollution occurs regularly, leading to
significantly altered of chemical and biological characteristics of the surface water and …

Despite the essential functions of sedimentary bacterial and fungal communities in
biogeochemical cycling, little is known about their biogeographic patterns and driving …

Dams are important for flood control, water storage, irrigation, electric generation,
navigation, and have been regarded as the largest anthropogenic disturbance in aquatic …

Abstract Background The Environment Ontology (ENVO; http://www. environmentontology.
org/), first described in 2013, is a resource and research target for the semantically …

Bacteria inhabiting boreal freshwaters are part of metacommunities where local
assemblages are often linked by the flow of water in the landscape, yet the resulting spatial …

Background Bacterial communities are essential to the biogeochemical cycle in riverine
ecosystems. However, little is presently known about the integrated biogeography of …