Microbial diversity and biogeochemical cycling in soda lakes

DY Sorokin, T Berben, ED Melton, L Overmars… - Extremophiles, 2014 - Springer
Soda lakes contain high concentrations of sodium carbonates resulting in a stable elevated
pH, which provide a unique habitat to a rich diversity of haloalkaliphilic bacteria and …

Functional microbiology of soda lakes

DY Sorokin, HL Banciu, G Muyzer - Current opinion in microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•A current knowledge on extremophilic microbial communities in soda is
reviewed.•The focus is made on functional groups as opposed to general microbial …

Metagenomic insights into the uncultured diversity and physiology of microbes in four hypersaline soda lake brines

CD Vavourakis, R Ghai, F Rodriguez-Valera… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soda lakes are salt lakes with a naturally alkaline pH due to evaporative concentration of
sodium carbonates in the absence of major divalent cations. Hypersaline soda brines harbor …

Archaea and bacteria with surprising microdiversity show shifts in dominance over 1,000-year time scales in hydrothermal chimneys

WJ Brazelton, KA Ludwig, ML Sogin… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The Lost City Hydrothermal Field, an ultramafic-hosted system located 15 km west of the Mid-
Atlantic Ridge, has experienced at least 30,000 years of hydrothermal activity. Previous …

Surprising prokaryotic and eukaryotic diversity, community structure and biogeography of Ethiopian soda lakes

A Lanzen, A Simachew, A Gessesse, D Chmolowska… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Soda lakes are intriguing ecosystems harboring extremely productive microbial communities
in spite of their extreme environmental conditions. This makes them valuable model systems …

Vertical distribution of microbial communities in a perennially stratified Arctic lake with saline, anoxic bottom waters

AM Comeau, T Harding, PE Galand, WF Vincent… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Meromictic lakes are useful biogeochemical models because of their stratified chemical
gradients and separation of redox reactions down the water column. Perennially ice-covered …

Bacteria, archaea and viruses of soda lakes

WD Grant, BE Jones - Soda Lakes of East Africa, 2016 - Springer
The soda lake environment presents microorganisms with many combinations of physical
and chemical extremes, amongst them extremes of alkaline pH, salinity (NaCl), temperature …

Microbial biogeography of six salt lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a salt lake in Argentina

E Pagaling, H Wang, M Venables… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
We used cultivation-independent methods to investigate the prokaryotic biogeography of the
water column in six salt lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a salt lake in Argentina. These …

Relationship between soil properties and patterns of bacterial β-diversity across reclaimed and natural boreal forest soils

PA Dimitriu, SJ Grayston - Microbial ecology, 2010 - Springer
Productivity gradients in the boreal forest are largely determined by regional-scale changes
in soil conditions, and bacterial communities are likely to respond to these changes. Few …

Spatio‐temporal insights into microbiology of the freshwater‐to‐hypersaline, oxic‐hypoxic‐euxinic waters of Ursu Lake

A Baricz, CM Chiriac, AȘ Andrei… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ursu Lake is located in the Middle Miocene salt deposit of Central Romania. It is stratified,
and the water column has three distinct water masses: an upper freshwater‐to‐moderately …